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...tonight’s debate because it focuses only on foreign policy: an arena in which the importance of electing John Kerry is most apparent. The first step in fighting any war is to acknowledge the facts on the ground. The fact is that Iraq is in dire peril and the security situation could not even be considered stable, much less conducive to the elections planned for January. President Bush botched the aftermath of the Iraq invasion, and yet he continues to promulgate the fiction that the war is going well, despite the stubborn facts...
Emma R. F. Nothmann ’04, Let’s Go’s outgoing publishing director, would not comment on internal company discussions, but she said that Let’s Go is not in financial peril...
Those who engage in such folly do so at their own peril, as the Columbia Lions, whom Harvard scrimmaged two weekends ago, would likely agree...
...leading the way in the next big phase in cat conservation: building links to turn isolated preserves into one continuous habitat. Scientists call this approach landscape conservation, and many believe it's the best hope for saving the world's tiger population, which, despite decades of effort, remains in peril: only 5,000 to 7,000 animals survive in the wild...
...main long-term danger to the U.S. is increased reliance on foreign oil. Many business leaders and politicians have taken note that ultralow oil prices are threatening to stunt domestic production. Gerald Greenwald, vice chairman of Chrysler, sees the peril of another oil shock. Says he: "We've been burned twice before, and we see the elements of No. 3 taking shape." ... The oil bust has spoiled the economics of alternative energy as well. Many of the ballyhooed 1970s-era programs to extract petroleum from oil shale and tar sands have been mothballed because they cost too much to operate...