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Since CLS focuses on the law's alleged bias, adherents hope to reach out ot those whom they see as suffering from that prejudice. Entitled "Race, Class and Gender," this year's three-day conference attempts to interest minorities and women by including many workshops about feminism and discrimination...
...sophisticated weapons systems that do not live up to expectations, Congress created the Pentagon's Office of Operational Test and Evaluation in 1983 with a clear mandate: test all major new weapons systems under realistic "operational" conditions. No new systems would be purchased in significant quantities without approval from OT&E. But according to a General Accounting Office report, OT&E has been a failure...
...examined six weapons systems, including the Aegis defense system used by U.S. vessels in the Persian Gulf. "In all six cases," said the report, "the test agencies stated findings that were not consistent with the evidence." Among the OT&E's sins: setting up targets that were slower or easier to hit than those in combat and using few or no countermeasures, such as radar jamming, to challenge the weapons systems...
...large haul of Rhodes and Marshall winners this year may be due in part ot recent changes in Harvard's internal fellowships procedures...
...quoted by Pakistan's official news agency, said: "According to unofficial reports, the two superpowers have agreed on the symmetry under which both would be able to provide continued assistance ot their respective allies in Afghanistan." No details of the alleged agreement were given...