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...opened a broad front in its battle against illegal immigration: the government has established repatriation accords with East European and North African countries under which illegal immigrants apprehended on Italian territory are automatically sent back to the country they fled. The center-right opposition, which is expected to prevail in this spring's election, favors curtailing legal immigration and expelling the country's 180,000 illegals...
Junior Margaret Elias and sophomore Carlin Wang will play No. 2 and No. 3 against a Quaker team that boasts five top-20 ranked players. In order for Harvard to prevail, the Crimson will need strong performances from its entire lineup...
There are several ways to explain last week's popular putsch. The first is that Filipinos are exceedingly impatient. Throughout the Senate trial, it was apparent that Estrada retained enough clout, and popular support, to avoid being removed from office. But instead of allowing him to prevail in these tainted hearings, after which the democratic system could digest the votes of the various Senators and eventually throw them out of office, Filipinos decided to take to the streets. But this argument is flawed: Filipinos in fact are among the most patient people in Asia. The original People Power revolution...
...should parents and pediatricians react to the reports? Medical common sense should prevail, says pediatric radiologist Dr. Michael DiPietro of the C. S. Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. "If alarm prevents people from having tests done that really need to be done, then the chances of harm from that are much greater than the chances of harm from the radiation. The concerns raised by this study should highlight, however, the need for these tests being ordered appropriately, done correctly and interpreted correctly in order to get the maximum information from the minimum...
...arrears. Much to the delight of anti-abortion activists, Clinton felt compelled to accept it. Just last October, the Clinton administration lifted the gag rule, which affects approximately 430 organizations in more than 50 nations. But in a tight presidential campaign with Senate Republicans hoping Bush would prevail, Congress attached a compromise to the ruling, effectively deferring family planning funds from flowing until February...