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...divide the fragile international coalition arrayed against him. This reasoning is 180 degrees wrong. The real danger to allied unity is that most of our coalition partners--Germany, Britain, Turkey and Jordan among them--face strong domestic opposition to a military solution. Sanctions may be the only instrument of policy that their citizens will support...
...revised guidelines under consideration are primarily aimed at the doctors, dentists, nurses and technicians who perform invasive procedures that require putting a hand holding a sharp instrument inside the body, a definition covering most surgical and dental activities. These operations carry the greatest risk of exposure to contaminated blood. The proposals call for such workers to be tested for HIV infection and, if they prove positive, to refrain from performing invasive procedures unless they have the informed consent of the patient or are faced with an emergency. The new policy would be voluntary, but medical institutions, already skittish about potential...
...American Music of Irving Berlin, Dwight Thomas at the Paramount Wurlitzer Organ (Newport Classic). Even on this unlikely instrument, Berlin's melodic invention -- from the infectious Puttin' on the Ritz to the tender Always -- is nonpareil. The sleeper of the year...
...local vision center, you can just go back and have it changed. Not so for NASA, whose incorrect prescription is spinning around the earth in the Hubble Space Telescope. Because a mirror was ground to the wrong shape, the space agency was saddled with a $1.5 billion instrument that performs far below expectations...
...this time in Harvard Yard. Just like the first time, I came upon it by chance, hearing the speeches reverberate through my Sever Hall classroom. I hadn't paid much attention to the posters publicizing the protest, even though I had decided that I oppose using war as an instrument of our Gulf policy; it was the end of the semester, and I was distracted...