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Israeli diplomats consider these moves to be modest and tentative but welcome nonetheless. American Jewish leaders and members of Congress have been lobbying hard for the shift. So, much more quietly, have some younger civil servants inside several Japanese ministries. They see their country's compliance with the boycott as symptomatic of the parochialism and selfishness that have until now marked Japan's definition of its role in the world...
Baltimore should issue a fuller apology, accounting for his alleged cover-up of the initial fraud. Then he should reflect for a week or two and consider stepping down from his position as president of Rockefeller University and de facto science statesman. Give him a modest lab to work in, maybe one in the old Rockefeller buildings where the microbe hunters toiled decades ago. I picture something with a river view, where it is impossible to forget that Manhattan is an island, that the earth is a planet, and that there is something out there much larger, and possibly even...
...pretax basis, as much as 50% of which could be matched by the employer. The proposal also takes a step toward portable pensions: workers who change jobs could transfer pension benefits by telling their new employer to roll the money into an IRA. Since the plan is more modest than earlier efforts, chances for congressional approval look good...
Thousands of companies and individuals lost billions of dollars in Iraq's devastation of Kuwait, and now they'd like to get some of it back. Do they stand a chance? The cumbersome legal machinery is creaking into motion, and many victims, ranging from multinational corporations to families seeking modest payments for homes looted and destroyed, may well receive compensation -- eventually. Before legal action can begin, the U.N. must settle details of a special compensation fund to be financed out of a still unfixed percentage of Iraq's future oil revenues. The U.N. model may be the U.S-Iran claims tribunal...
That was a triumph of modest proportions, though Baker pointed out that a regional meeting could not be arranged "with one trip or even two trips." The governments' long-standing preconditions are likely to re-emerge as they try to agree on who will participate and what the agenda will...