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...Cordesman, a military analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, believe Saddam has the sophisticated triggers, weapon housings and everything else he needs to build a nuclear device--except for a sufficient supply of weapons-grade enriched uranium. Intelligence indicates that he is angling to obtain some on the international black market, but it's not something that your friendly neighborhood arms smuggler can lay hands on right away. So Saddam also is working to enrich his own uranium. That's a major technological challenge, but Iraq is expected to succeed within three to six years...
Once organizers obtain signatures from 30 percent of potential union members--—in this case graduate student teaching fellows and research assistants—they can file for recognition as a union from the regional office of the NLRB...
Johnson says organizers at Harvard hope to obtain initial signatures from at least 50 percent of eligible graduate students —instead of the required 30 percent—and that she did not know when the UAW might file for recognition on behalf of the teaching fellows...
...seeking weapons of mass destruction, notably chemical arms and ballistic-missile delivery systems. "The President has made absolutely clear that these weapons will not be tolerated," a senior Bush Administration official tells TIME. "That means, very simply, that removing sanctions from a country like Libya, which is trying to obtain them, is not going to happen, no matter how much money Gaddafi is prepared to offer...
...grew up in the 60s, and I have some nostalgia for those turbulent times. In the early 70s, almost none of my college classmates would have said that they were attending college to obtain a good job. Behind the naive idealism of the time, there was a license to reflect upon why, and to what purpose—I miss this. I wish I could give advice that would bring back the ideological discussions, at least as I have romanticized them...