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Mount Saint Mary's enters tomorrow's contest after a decisive 13- point victory against rival William and Mary last Sunday. The Crimson may have a tough time stopping Williams, who scored 23 points on 10-of-13 shooting and Kokotajlo, who netted an additional...
Bill Clinton will be pleased; so will Greece and even Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan - but being accepted as a candidate member of the European Union may be a mixed blessing for Turkey's leaders. The European Union voted Friday to accept Turkey as a candidate member, conditional on it's improving its human rights record and accepting the binding arbitration of the International Court of Justice at the Hague in its long-running dispute with Greece over Cyprus. "This is good news for the U.S. because Turkey is NATO's front line in relation to Russia and the Caucasus...
...those that will get Ankara nervous about Europe's decision. "The E.U.'s conditions will put enormous pressure on Turkey on a range of issues, such as Greece and the Kurds, that have been central to Turkish nationalism," says Dowell. To be sure, conforming to Europe's conditions may compel them to refrain from carrying out the death sentence a Turkish court handed down to Ocalan on multiple murder charges - the death penalty itself is in violation of E.U. human rights standards. Actual membership, then, may still be years away, but in the end it could prove...
...full-blown AIDS. Compiling a database of the infected makes it easier to track (and prevent) the spread of the disease. But HIV/AIDS, once considered the "gay plague," still carries a stigma, and that could scare many HIV-positive people away from putting their names in a database. They may not be reassured by the CDC recommendation that states make it a felony to release the names of HIV patients. "This is all part of a larger issue of privacy versus the ability to track and help prevent a disease," notes TIME science writer Christine Gorman. "And the privacy concerns...
...change that. Their reason: Agents have discovered what they believe to be evidence that Lee downloaded some of the classified material to tape after transferring it to the unclassified server. "The FBI wants to know what happened to that tape," says TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon, "and indicting him may put pressure on Lee to provide an answer." Now they'll get their chance to see whether an indictment will jog Lee's memory...