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Some Western analysts believed that Beijing would come down hard on the resurgent activists only to relent by the June deadline to demonstrate enough improvement to merit renewal of MFN. Or, the experts said, the tough old communists expect Clinton to back down and compromise. Either way, they are making it extremely difficult for themselves to meet the U.S. demand for % "overall significant progress." Last week they were not even trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farewell My Trade Status? | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...even those few cases would merit attention,Skocpol said. "I think that most of our TFs do anoutstanding job", she said. "But where there areproblems, we need to address them, and we have...

Author: By Elizabeth J. Riemer, | Title: Faculty Approves TF Training Plan | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...audacity to present some opaque social theories to the Harvard community. I think that if steele is to continue advocating that African-Americans be "held accountable" by whites, then he must be careful not to exclude himself from such scrutiny. He must ask himself if it is the merit of his theories or the fact that he is an African-American Ph.D. who supports a certain political agenda that guarantees his invitation to speaking engagements around the country. Furthermore, I would suggest that if he continues to posit such theories, he should pursue a more rigorous presentation and defense...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Steele's Speech Was Disappointing | 3/8/1994 | See Source »

Peninsula's staffers say the journal is persuasive and presents well-reasoned arguments. Critics, however, say the magazine is so conservative that it does not represent reasonable viewpoints. Peninsula's views, they say, do not even merit response...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: Student Journal Ceases To Shock | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

...hint of reluctance to continue negotiating, but he kept his options open. Yitzhak Rabin made a point of sounding genuinely horrified when he called Goldstein "deranged," and he extended uncharacteristically warm offerings to the Palestinians while imposing unheard-of measures against the settlers. Bill Clinton, with unusual decisiveness, made merit out of mayhem and invited both parties to resume their talks in Washington immediately. The Hebron rampage may end up achieving the opposite of what Goldstein intended: speeding up the Israeli-P.L.O. peace negotiations rather than wrecking them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Fury Rules | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

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