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...These limitations are part of the natural world we inhabit, and employers offer a viable and strictly voluntary means of overcoming them. Without Harvard, there would be no janitorial positions or potential wages to begin with. Harvard is the producer, the generator of wealth. If a worker wishes to obtain some of that wealth, he must offer something in return—i.e., his labor—and he has a right to bargain for equitable wages. He never has the right, however, to seize or damage Harvard’s property, just as he never has the right...
...Soviet Union forbade him to travel and added him to the list of refuseniks—Soviet Jews who could not obtain exit visas and were penalized for requesting them...
...developing over the prosecution of Zacarias Moussaoui, the French Moroccan due to go on trial in October for conspiracy in the Sept. 11 attacks. Ashcroft's expected decision to seek the death penalty in the case has inflamed European opponents of capital punishment and could hinder the efforts to obtain more evidence about Moussaoui's association with Muslim radicals in Europe...
...through. To claim that the results of this process provide some self-evidently fair and complete measure of potential to excel at university, or in life, is just silly. Many American colleges happily acknowledge that once applicants reach a certain threshold of academic ability, they blend many attributes to obtain a class: geographic and racial variety, athletic and artistic ability, whether Mom or Dad is an alum. That last criterion is not so crass as accepting a parent's proffered check, but the difference is only of degree, not kind. In 20 years or 50, loyalty is expected to breed...
...plane takes off for Texas, when the British government will issue a detailed dossier about Saddam's secret weapons programs. A draft is now circulating in Whitehall. There is internal debate about how much secret intelligence to divulge, but the document will emphasize how persistently Saddam has tried to obtain weapons of mass destruction (wmds), nuclear bombs in particular. "It's very good," says one official who has seen...