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...idea of an airline bailout - as long as it came with a mechanism to compensate victims. Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate and a longtime proponent of tort reform, pushed hard to limit how much the victims' families could claim, but he did not prevail...
...which point of view will prevail here, the scientific or the political...
...India too has a substantial interest in General Musharraf's success. Failure would see the general ousted and replaced by a leadership more prone to Islamist adventurism. And while India's military superiority would almost always prevail, New Delhi's long-term interests in attracting growth and investment and realizing its potential in the global marketplace are imperiled by the specter of continued conflict with a hostile and nuclear-armed neighbor. Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes may have repeatedly warned that if Musharraf fails to rein in the Islamists, India will have to do the job itself - but military confrontation...
...Harvard men next face Williams on Jan. 24 and Dartmouth on Jan. 30. Both teams have tough players at the top of their line-ups, but the Crimson expects to prevail...
...been killed during U.S. air strikes two weeks ago in the province of Paktia. The Pentagon says the Paktian village of Niazi Qala harbored Taliban ammunition dumps. But visitors to the village after the attacks say leaders from the province had asked Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai, to prevail upon the U.S. to stop bombing in Paktia. A convoy of tribal leaders from the area was attacked by American warplanes on Dec. 20 as they set out for Kabul to attend Karzai's swearing-in. As many as 65 people were said to have been killed then...