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...Israeli-Palestinian crisis was a far greater, and more immediate threat to regional stability. That forced the Bush Administration to rethink its Middle East policy, first sending Secretary of State Powell out to literally rescue Arafat, and two months later the President called for Arafat's removal as the precursor to a quick-time march to Palestinian statehood...
...they knew, based on discrepancies in Iraqi documents they had seized, that Iraq still hid 6,000 chemical bombs. They discounted Iraq's contention that it had destroyed all of the 3.9 tons of deadly VX nerve poison that it admitted to having produced or the 500 tons of precursor chemicals to make more. They suspected Iraq retained 550 artillery shells filled with mustard...
...warm and fuzzy editorial comments aside, the experience of observing these children interact with one another has forced me to think more seriously about some central questions about gifted education I had previously taken for granted. Since the inception of the Binet intelligence test—the precursor of today’s IQ test—nearly a century ago, scientists and instructors have grappled with the proper methods for educating children with a greater potential for scholastic success than the average child. The passage of the first national allocation of taxpayer money for gifted education in 1974 touched...
...more to Ji'an than its wealth of tombs and mural art. The Koguryo kingdom was once a leading power in northeast Asia, able to defy even the mighty Chinese Tang dynasty for a while. Contemporary Koreans?from both the North and South?take pride in Koguryo as a precursor of their own modern states. They wonder how Korean history might have been had the kingdom withstood the 7th century advances of a lethal alliance between the Tang and the Silla kingdom, a rival neighbor to Koguryo's south...
Eight top analysts left Legg Mason last June to found Precursor Group, based in Washington. Led by former ING Barings ceo Michael Petrycki, another group of analysts broke away last May to form Fulcrum Global Partners, based in New York City. They join well-established Sanford C. Bernstein among the boutique firms selling stock research unfettered by investment-banking concerns. Individual investors generally can't get research from these firms, which are paid in commissions from hedge funds or mutual funds that act on the firms' recommendations. But select, full research reports are available at prices as high as several...