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...let’s just imagine that, despite the draconian restrictions, the U.S. was able to develop a fully functioning anti-missile program. Our foreign allies would object if Bush withheld the technology from them, for the fight against terrorism is an international campaign, and we shouldn’t be the only ones to have such advanced protection. The international press would surely brand him, once again, as an “isolationist.” And, of course, their point would be well taken. Would Bush be able to mitigate these concerns by transferring anti-missile system components...
...their own community - the ear of a stranger with a notebook and a tape recorder is nobody's first choice. Aside from a filial tolerance of floor-roamers like Maria Bartiromo and their camera crews, the NYSE is not built for media, and Wall Street as a news object is the opposite of Washington - it doesn?t need or want coverage to make its living, and traders don?t do soundbites in the best of times...
...debate. To supporters of affirmative action, they are the ideal response to rulings such as the UGA and Hopwood decisions, and work to keep higher education inclusive while staying within the letter of the law. But opponents of affirmative action are crying foul. It's hard for anyone to object to some of the milder efforts--like letters of encouragement to minority applicants. But Ward Connerly, the California regent who wrote Proposition 209, argues that many of the ideas being proposed in California, like reducing the academic track, are "designed to be proxies for points"--ways of tipping the scales...
...cuts--with or without White House backing. "Fine," Bush said, feigning enthusiasm. Privately, the President is worried that a Hastert plan, if passed, could dunk the budget in red ink by 2004, when he is up for re-election, if not sooner. But Bush decided not to object to Hastert's plan in public...
...goal of discovering the Queen's true identity, the task may well prove impossible. "In order to know who she was, we would need to find an inscription in Hebrew, and find it on an object that was unequivocally linked to the 10th century B.C.," Glanzman says. "That's like trying to find a needle in a haystack that's been buried under 10 meters of sand...