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During the campaign, Bush was highly critical of Clinton's policy. But he takes office when most of the mechanisms applied against Saddam have worn out. The 10-year-old sanctions imposed by the U.N. have unraveled. Countries such as France and Russia prefer to do business with Iraq. Moderate Arab states don't like Saddam but can't stomach the deprivations suffered by ordinary Iraqis. Egypt has restored diplomatic relations. The U.N. weapons-inspections regime is dead. The Bush Administration is pushing money to opposition groups that most analysts say are too weak, divided and unpopular to do much...
...that it is important to know whether a student has a drinking problem in order to be able to recommend counseling or other services. Although we understand the administration's concern, we believe such programs should be run by UHS itself rather than by the College. Certainly, if students prefer to go through the College in seeking help for a drinking problem, they should not be prevented from doing so. But the dual role the administrators juggle as guardians of student health and enforcers of the rules may make students wary of seeking their help...
There are differences between the illiberal right and the illiberal left, of course. Ashcroft and his allies oppose gambling because they believe it endangers our mortal souls. PSLM attacks gambling because they consider it an unwise use of our money. Ultimately, I probably prefer to have someone looking out for my soul than my pocketbook. But my first choice would be neither. So I hope Harvard does not divest its holdings in our casino-loving friends. And I hope Bartley and his PSLM colleagues take a long look at what kind of liberal values they are defending...
Californians could face a choice come November 2002. Do they want a guy named Gray Davis to juice those turbines, or would they prefer to see the Terminator cracking skulls down at the regulatory commission? Inspired by the recent power drain, ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER is again flirting with a possible run for Governor of California. Citing a need for aggressive leadership, Schwarzenegger told the Los Angeles Times, "The bottom line is, if Davis goes on the way he is, then eventually there will be a vacuum in a year, and I could...I just leave it open." To give...
...Clinton's chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. He summed up the danger: "Small economy. Big country. With nuclear weapons." Over roughly a decade, he said, the number of Russians living below the poverty line has swelled to more than 50% of the population. The rich, meanwhile, still prefer paying bribes to paying their taxes. The 7% growth Russia saw in 2000 came off a severely contracted economic base and was mostly the result of the world spike in oil prices. And Russia did not use the oil boom as an opportunity to invest in its collapsing infrastructure...