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...have been outspoken in your advocacy of using military means to remove regimes. Why do you consider this such an attractive option...
...general to his promise to step down as army chief at the end of November, lift the emergency degree and hold elections in early January. Negroponte will also try to revive the Musharraf-Bhutto deal, but some in the Administration recognize that can no longer be the only option. "If it becomes more and more clear that [Musharraf] is not budging," says a Western diplomat in Islamabad, "then certainly you start thinking of alternatives...
...company invited 150 analysts to a seminar in Miami last October that was the highlight of its investor-relations campaign. But on the evening before the seminar started, Brabeck let slip over drinks that Nestle had an option to acquire the French cosmetics company L'Oreal in 2004. When the markets opened the next morning, Nestle stock tumbled on fears about what such an acquisition would do to its already growing debt. Brabeck kicked off the seminar with an angry lecture, complaining that his remarks had been misinterpreted and reading aloud extracts from the option agreement with L'Oreal...
...Science of the Physical Universe,” “Societies of the World,” and “the United States and the World.” “Classes that are here now, including the Class of 2011, will have the option of switching over to Gen Ed,” Harris said. “Although we imagine for the majority of students, that will not be wise.” Harris added that while the committee felt pressure from freshman and sophomore advisers to tackle the question of transition timing, the group...
...Like his two most recent predecessors, Bill Clinton is subject to the Presidential Records Act of 1978. Under the law, all records are kept from the public for five years from the time a President leaves office. After that, every President has an option - and all of them have taken it - of withholding for further review six types of records for another seven years. Among the types of documents that can be subjected to further review are confidential advice between the President and his advisers. All three Presidents who have been covered by the act have invoked that option, though...