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Bill Clinton has portrayed the Marc Rich pardon as a favor to Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, citing the imperative of foreign policy to justify his last-minute decision. Had he checked with his own State Department, however, he would have discovered that diplomatic experts rejected a similar plea five years...
Whitney Houston may not have a drug problem, but she definitely has some serious short-term-memory issues. Last November, Houston and Hawaiian prosecutors reached a plea agreement to set aside drug-possession charges stemming from an incident in which Houston was found with marijuana in her handbag by Keahole-Kona International Airport police. All Houston had to do was pay a $1,000 fine, donate $3,000 to an organization suspiciously named Big Island Wave Riders Against Drugs and submit to a substance-abuse assessment within three months. For some reason, Houston never did get that assessment. Now prosecutors...
...point of all this is not to disparage students with high academic records, or even to suggest that traditional course grading schemes should be abandoned. Rather, it is a plea to be honest with ourselves about what grades actually mean. If Mansfield wants to give his students two grades, so be it. But there is nothing about Mansfield's non-inflated grades that make them any more accurate as gauges of learning or knowledge. Saying otherwise is simply misleading...
...India's unilateral ceasefire took effect on Nov. 28. They were shot dead by Indian security forces on Nov. 26 soon after returning from their training camps in Pakistan, across the Line of Control, which divides Kashmir. Irfan says he tried to turn the two away from violence. His plea was rejected. "They said they wanted to become martyrs." Martyrs for Kashmir? "No," says Irfan, "martyrs for Islam...
...rush out and buy the latest $10,000 magazine-dress with matching velvet smoking glove hat. No, you're looking at these photos because you want to know what those madcap geniuses were up to at the haute-couture fashion shows in Paris last week. In a naked plea for publicity, Seredin and Vasilev unveiled a dress made from Vogue covers (left), as well as a knockoff of the classic Chanel suit done entirely in not-quite-body-covering pearls. Christian Lacroix appeared to take inspiration from the fluttery fashions of ice skaters (lower right), clashing patterns, colors and whatever...