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Knowles denies that the College hasspecifically tried to cater to its alumnae byproving that the College is intent on improvingthe lives of its female undergraduates...
They're sworn to protect the President; now Janet Reno is set to step into the ring to protect them from testifying. The Secret Service got a boost late Monday when the Justice Department filed a brief notice of intent to appeal last month's ruling from Judge Norma Holloway Johnson, which compelled Secret Service agents to testify in Ken Starr's Lewinsky probe. While that doesn't guarantee a DOJ appeal, it does leave the door open for Reno to challenge her own independent counsel in the courts...
...matter of vital national security, a precaution against Pakistan's nuclear preparations, a deterrent to ward off China's hegemony. Just two weeks ago, Defense Minister Fernandes had suddenly called China "threat No. 1," claiming it was encircling India with missile and naval deployments of suspicious intent. But until then relations between the neighboring giants had been mending. Even though India has fought three wars with Pakistan, nothing has changed recently in the subcontinent's military balance to warrant so radical a reaction...
...building a bomb; South Korea and Taiwan have halted their nuclear programs; South Africa has voluntarily dismantled its small nuclear arsenal; Iraq has been manhandled into giving up its nuclear preparations. But that still leaves out plenty of ambitious nations, with little way to curb them. Iran remains intent on developing nuclear technology with what it can acquire by cash or stealth. Israel may feel compelled to beef up its basement arsenal of about 100 warheads, provoking Egypt to reconsider going nuclear. North Korea, which grudgingly accepted a cap on its two-bomb arsenal, rumbled last week that it might...
...problems inherent in the wording of the consent decree became painfully apparent when Klein finally went after Gates last fall. For Klein, the intent of Microsoft's harsh licensing deals--its strong-arming of Compaq, for instance--was clearly to drive up the market share of Microsoft's Explorer at the expense of front runner Navigator's. Thus, he felt, those deals constituted tying. No, they don't, Gates shot back; Explorer is as much an integrated part of the operating system as type fonts or file-system managers. Months later, the battle is still being waged in appeals court...