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According to local political observer Robert C. Winters, the Cambridge city council is a difficult place to launch a state political career...
Last spring, Harvard altered its disciplinary policy governing peer disputes to require corroborating evidence before the Administrative Board will launch a full review of a case. This will greatly reduce the number of sexual assault cases the University actually investigates; obviously, in many of these cases, corroborating evidence is difficult to obtain before an investigation even begins. For this reason among others, Harvard’s new policy is a tragedy for sexual assault victims. However, one anonymous student’s recent appeal of the decision on Title IX grounds—which prohibits discrimination in education...
They may not yet be at war, but President Bush and Saddam Hussein are already locked in a battle for time. The President is cracking the whip, trying to force the pace of a showdown. The reason: if he is to launch a full-blown invasion of Iraq by January - which is as early as the logistics of moving U.S. armed forces into the region will permit - he has only a matter of weeks to secure the requisite political decisions. And the Iraqi dictator is doing his best to slow things down, proclaiming his intention to abide by UN writ...
...plans for what not to attack: Washington wants to leave enough of the key military-communications network intact so that the Iraqi military wouldn't lose contact with the capital and follow its standing orders under such circumstances to launch biological and chemical weapons. The U.S. also would spare, as far as possible, the 300,000-strong regular Iraqi army in the hope that it would end up siding with American forces and forming the foundation for a post-Saddam military. Once U.S. forces captured major cities in northern and southern Iraq, ground troops would advance to Baghdad...
...fresh out of college, as many of his cohorts did. After studying history at Hamilton College in upstate New York, he joined the Navy, where he gained his first merchandising experience as a supply officer during the Vietnam War. He made his mark at P&G overseeing the successful launch of Liquid Tide in 1984, and made an even bigger impression during his three-year stint in Asia in the mid-'90s, building the company's now booming business in China almost from the ground up and resuscitating its faltering cosmetics business in Japan...