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...administration whose own de-facto Iran policy veers towards regime change. Almost every nation that backs the U.S. against Iran going nuclear would be equally adamant against any U.S. effort to force a change of regime in Tehran. The Europeans believe that regime change, although desirable, must occur as a result of internal pressure, because - as the nuclear standoff has shown - any external threat rallies even opponents of the mullahs behind their regime, and any attack on Iran would create chaos in the region. Thus, while Secretary Rice was telling British audiences last week that military action "is not what...
...media has portrayed the case has allowed these secondary issues to overshadow the facts of the case. A recent New York Times article, for example, contained allegations that the members of the lacrosse team had been spotted at a local bar on a recent Saturday night (while vigils were occurring on campus) and that the coach had scheduled a practice which had caused the players to miss a course over a professor’s objections. These issues, while imprortant in the world of college sports, are unrelated to the case at hand. Rape and sexual assault are clearly very...
...trouble.So it came as a tremendous shock to most people in the athletic community when three Duke lacrosse players were accused of raping one of two strippers hired for a party at the house of some team members.Part of what makes these allegations so surprising is that the incident occurred at Duke as opposed to, for example, Florida State or Miami. These are two of the many Division I schools with notorious histories of indiscretions by athletes and questionable admissions decisions (most recently, Miami linebacker Willie Williams was admitted in 2004 despite 11 arrests...
...became so overwhelming that the earth's crust snapped like an overextended rubber band. Moreover, the buildup and release of strain appeared to be recurrent, resulting over time in a succession of earthquakes "of greater or less violence." These pioneering researchers provided the first big clue that earthquakes occur in cycles--that in the area around San Francisco Bay, earthquakes are as certain, if not as regular, as the seasons...
Earthquakes, scientists now know, occur along the San Andreas because the immense slabs of rock that make up the earth's crust are ever so slowly sliding past one another, borne by poorly understood currents that roil through a sea of semimolten rock. By keeping tabs on the position of key landmarks on either side of the fault, scientists can measure the speed at which the plates are traveling, in this case about 2 in. a year. The problem for the Bay Area boils down to this: except for one short section, the plates on either side...