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...addition to all the ills the flesh is heir to, terrorism can strike very close to home. But in less affluent, less cushioned societies, people are beset by risks all the time, much worse than anything that most Americans must contend with, and life does not grind to a halt. Unless Americans follow suit, they risk becoming a society that imitates T.S. Eliot's aging, fearful hero J. Alfred Prufrock: they would not dare to eat a peach...
...donate to another woman. Her husband maintains they are "property jointly owned" and asserts that he does not want to be forced into fatherhood. Her lawyer, J.G. Christenberry, says that even when a relationship falls apart after a couple has conceived, the father does not have a right to halt the pregnancy...
...reduce payments due on Peru's $14 billion foreign debt. As a result, Peru is virtually cut off from all fresh foreign credits. Last September Garcia imposed a rigorous austerity plan designed to curtail imports, stimulate exports and cancel subsidies. But critics say his efforts are still insufficient to halt Peru's downward slide. And Garcia refuses to make any deal with international banks that would require the country to pay more on its debt than it would receive in new money. "It's not that Peru is refusing to pay," says Garcia. "But we are going to negotiate...
Despite the accusations of irresponsibility involved in this particular case, the larger question remains unanswered. As the FAA noted in December, it and the airlines constantly receive terrorist threats. To publish them all would effectively halt air travel and give the terrorists an unprecedented victory...
...February 4, the Tigers recorded an 8-1 win over Harvard at Princeton, bringing the Crimson's 72-match winning streak to a crashing halt. The streak ranks as the second-longest run of consecutive victories in collegiate athletic history, right behind the UCLA men's basketball team's 88-game streak in the 1970s...