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Missed, again. Still, don't expect the fact that the proposed missile defense system has thus far proved incapable of passing two out of three open-book tests - never mind combat simulations in which the "enemy" actually tries to confuse it with decoys - to put the kibosh on the controversial scheme. But the embarrassing mechanical failure in the test over the Pacific early Saturday does make life a lot easier for President Clinton and candidate Gore. Success would have forced the President to make a tough decision on go ahead with the program that threatens to destabilize existing arms-control...
...tenured Harvard professor is afraid to speak on the record, might I be in for more than I bargained? Has the Ivory Tower Mafia put the kibosh on chit-chat for secret, sordid reasons best left unexplored? More important, can tweed coats carry switchblades? Do corduroy patches cover gang signs? Are the cops going to find my mangled remains in a cement factory down the road from the next Modern Language Association convention...
...Federal judge ruled Thursday that New York City couldn't keep Ku Klux Klan members from wearing their notorious hoods to a downtown event scheduled for this Sunday. Citing a 155-year-old law against wearing masks at public rallies, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani had tried to put the kibosh on the KKK and at the same time make a few points as he gears up for his Senate run. The two-judge panel upheld the Klan?s claim that the masks were necessary precautions since the white supremacists faced major hostility among residents of the nation?s most ethnically diverse...
...With one of last year's recipients, Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble, having turned out to be something less than the visionary peacemaker that the award would imply after he put the kibosh on Northern Ireland's Good Friday peace agreement, committee members could be forgiven for casting a skeptical eye over 1999's other front-runners: U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan may be the world's preeminent peacemaker, but he was left flailing helplessly on the sidelines as the Kosovo conflict took shape and East Timor descended into anarchy. Similarly, U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke's previous efforts...
Just a case of bad timing or a disturbing sign of things to come? That's what residents of Hong Kong are asking after Beijing put the kibosh on Pope John Paul II?s planned visit to the former British colony later this year. Chinese officials told the Union of Asian Catholic News Agencies Monday that Beijing blocked the pontiff?s plans to visit the territory -- where an estimated 370,000 Catholics reside -- on the grounds that the Vatican maintains diplomatic ties with Taiwan. In more confident times, China?s Communist Party leadership may have been prepared to overlook such...