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...package. Second, the Ivy League common notification date should translate to the online admissions decisions. Staggered announcements may affect students’ matriculation decisions negatively, which is why the Ivies agreed to standardize their notification date in the first place. The use of online admissions information need not imperil this agreement...
...Washington is concerned that the situation in the Palestinian territories is fast spinning out of control, which could imperil U.S. efforts to maintain Arab support against Osama bin Laden. More than 23 Palestinians have been killed in fierce clashes since Friday, and recent moves to restore negotiations appear to have been completely reversed by the Zeevi assassination. Arafat, meanwhile, has banned the military arm of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which killed Zeevi in retaliation for the assassination of its own leader, Abu Ali Mustafa, by Israel last August. The Palestinian Authority (PA) has also arrested...
...remains the critical factor in the coalition's ability to destroy Bin Laden's networks. Bush administration hawks see the U.S. military campaign as an opportunity to deliver a decisive blow to Saddam Hussein's regime, but such a move would likely alarm Arab (and even European) allies, and imperil Washington's coalition building...
With that familiar scare tactic being trotted out yet again (no, the shrinking surplus doesn't imperil current Social Security recipients), it's tempting to turn off the whole sorry show and head back to the beach. But the dwindling surplus will have a real impact on ordinary Americans. To avoid cutting into the Social Security trust fund, Congress may have to slash farm subsidies, tax credits for the working poor and other social programs. A lack of surplus dollars to pay down the national debt helps keep mortgage and credit-card rates higher than they should...
...resolving the standoff was recognizing the political dynamic on the Chinese side. Plainly, President Jiang Zemin and the modernizers in Beijing who have staked their careers on opening China to the West and integrating it into the world economy had no interest in prolonging a confrontation that could only imperil their achievements. But in the atmosphere of hostility generated in China by the Hainan incident, there was a danger that those modernizers could be eclipsed by hard-liners in Beijing hoping to slow, or even turn back, the clock. A solution depended on Jiang and his allies' being given political...