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...vampire who took "the blood of Jewish children." Before being led away he shouted: "We will be victorious over the occupation." Meanwhile, British leader Tony Blair emphasized the need to restart the Middle East peace process, voicing support for George W. Bush's stated goals of Palestinian reform, a viable independent Palestine and a secure Israel. SAUDI ARABIA Security Lapse Saudi Arabia's top security chief General Saleh bin Taha Khosaifan resigned just days after a car bomb killed Maximilian Graf, a 56-year-old German working in the capital, Riyadh. The Saudi intelligence chief Prince Nawwaf blamed the attack...
...probity: The main reason he's ahead in the polls is his pledge to add a sorely lacking social-justice component to the capitalist project. He'd start, he says, with a crackdown on Brazil's epic tradition of tax evasion - especially among the nation's venal elite - a reform that Lula argues also makes good business sense. Brazil suffers from the worst concentration of wealth and governmental power on a continent whose economic and political inequality is rated the world's worst. "Every Real (Brazil's currency) in our hands will be worth more," Lula says, than public funds...
According to Fitzsimmons, the Fallows piece sparked a wave of public pressure to reform the system. And colleges responded. In December, Levin, citing early decision’s adverse effects on applicants, told The New York Times, “If we all got rid of it, it would be a good thing.” At the time, Levin said that Yale would not proceed alone because, if it did, his university “would be seriously disadvantaged relative to other schools...
Harvard is notoriously stingy about granting academic credit for work done at other institutions. For instance, although they are currently undergoing reform, the policies governing study abroad continue to be a great deal more restrictive than those at most other colleges. It is also quite difficult to get Harvard credit for work done at other domestic and local colleges (except...
...even though it’s probably too late for Saddam to reform his image, the Saddam Husseins of the future will undoubtedly be more savvy about the way they present themselves to the world, and America in particular because the American public’s image of these dictators is not at all insignificant. This is a fact attested to by the government of Saudi Arabia, which recently hired Qorvis Communications for $200,000 a month to try to repair damage done to the Saudi image by the Sept. 11 hijacking, as William Safire wrote in his Sept...