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...various administrators develop plans to dealwith the smoking ban, the committee in charge ofoverseeing the University's compliance with thesmoking policy is likely to inspect how well thedepartments follow the law, said Jim Dezieck, theHarvard personnel department's director of healthand fitness. However, Dezieck said there is noprocedure now for such inspections, and that hedid not know what standards would be applied...
...hope we feel at the beginning of a new semester, though, is not uncontaminated by our customary cynicism. Even as we inspect syllabi, a part of us thinks, How good could a social analysis course really be? Even as we buy new notebooks, we sigh a little, thinking of how many pages there are to fill, and of how gracelessly we will fill them; even as we write brave resolutions in pink marker—even as we promise ourselves to go to the gym three times a week!—a part of us knows we won?...
...indictment against Baghdad: While the UN inspectors concur with Washington's contention that Iraq has failed to account for substantial stocks of chemical and biological weapons, they have taken issue with U.S. claims about an Iraqi nuclear program. IAEA chief Dr. Mohammed al Baradei has sent his teams to inspect all the facilities identified by the U.S. and Britain last summer as potential Iraqi nuclear sites, and has pronounced them clean. And he disputes the Bush administration's claim that aluminum tubes sought by the Iraqis were for a clandestine nuclear program...
...they intended to go anywhere they wanted in the renewed hunt for weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein may possess. After a few minutes' hesitation by startled palace guards, the 23 U.N. and International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors were welcomed in--to enter rooms, poke in closets, even inspect a store of marmalade. Iraq was making it just as clear that the regime intended to make a show of its cooperation with the onerous terms of Security Council Resolution 1441. The inspection was largely symbolic for both sides: presidential palaces had been effectively off-limits during the eight years...
...hastened the collapse of East Germany. A refugee crisis seems to be exactly what China doesn't want. Yet Beijing last week allowed U.S. Senator Sam Brownback?a vocal critic of China's practice of sending refugees back home to face imprisonment or even execution?into the country to inspect the refugee situation along China's border with the North. Some U.S. Congressmen are calling for America to share costs for the resettlement of refugees with South Korea, Russia, China and other Asian countries, which might make the tactic more palatable to the mainland. But diplomats say by approving Brownback...