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...promise French troops, but he did tell Biden, "If the coalition led by the Americans stays in Iraq, it's a disaster, and if they leave, it's a disaster. So we have a dilemma." But Chirac appeared far more concerned by the likelihood of chaos if the troops leave...
According to Scott, coaches hand in a list of players that they are attempting to recruit to the admissions office. The admissions counselors then look over the list and inform the coaches about the likelihood of a given athlete’s acceptance. The coaches then take the athletes who have no chance of getting admitted off their list and actively recruit those with a better likelihood of acceptance. Thus, the pre-screening process inflates the admissions rates for athletes...
...operation was performed by a low-volume surgeon (someone who had done the procedure fewer than 40 times a year in the past two years). For cancer patients, the numbers were even more striking. Unless a surgeon had performed 162 operations a year over the past two years, the likelihood of death was 1.2 to 3.6 times as great...
According to Ray Mellone, a Brighton community organizer, the likelihood of Harvard shelling out millions for the Brighton lot is “a possibility but not a probability...
...Washington achieve its larger goals. For the idealists in the Administration, one purpose of the adventure in Iraq was to create in the Middle East a democratic, pluralistic state with protections for the rights of minorities and women. But an Iraqi constitution written by an elected body in all likelihood means a constitution written by the Shi'ite majority. That runs the risk that neither the Sunnis nor the Kurds--both of whom want their interests protected--will be content with it. And though there is little appetite among Iraqi Shi'ites for an Iranian-style constitutional theocracy, there...