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Thus did the North Korean regime escalate a showdown that began last October, when it confirmed U.S. intelligence reports that it was illegally building a new uranium-enrichment factory--another pathway to the Bomb. The expulsion of the inspectors was the clearest sign yet that Pyongyang is intent on pushing the stand-off to the brink. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei, lamented that the world now has "no clue" what Pyongyang might try to develop in coming months. In fact, it does have a clue: North Korea, which the CIA believes already has enough fissile...
Most would agree with the intent of Law School students who wish to create an academic community free of racism, harassment, and prejudice. One would certainly expect those individuals who have chosen the law as their livelihood to be champions of an egalitarian society—both within the ivy walls and outside in the real world. But in their zeal to punish the behavior and actions of hateful people, they have begun to make speech, rather than actions, the enemy of their cause...
...deceased first wife, Klaudia, whose existence remained unknown even to some of Sugihara's family until they read Levine's book. Levine says he hasn't seen the court document yet but doubts he could have made 300 errors and says he's insulted by any accusations of malicious intent or fabrication...
...Bush Administration did not come into office intent on changing the world. "There is nothing wrong with doing something that benefits all humanity," wrote Rice in her Foreign Affairs article, with the air of a martinet schoolmarm lecturing her students, "but that is, in a sense, a second-order effect." Bush himself, when a candidate for the presidency, seemed leery about pushing American values on other countries. His Administration, he said in a 2000 presidential debate, would not "go around the world saying, 'We do it this way, so should you.'" But Sept. 11 changed everything. The attacks on that...
...Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA), the law governing Indian gambling, seems to support the Santees' decision. The act says, "It is the committee's intent that the compact requirement for Class III not be used as a justification by a state for excluding Indian tribes from such gaming." No matter. The NIGC ordered the tribe to close the casino by May 1996. It did, with the understanding the state would work with the tribe on other economic development ventures...