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...YUGOSLAVIA Milosevic Standoff Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic vowed to resist arrest Friday night in Belgrade. Police besieged his house a day before a U.S. deadline for the Yugoslav government to comply with the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Hague or lose $100 million in aid. Milosevic could stand trial in Belgrade or the Hague...
...Most importantly, perhaps, the administration should resist the temptation to link the resolution of the Hainan standoff with other issues, such as China's accession to the World Trade Organization, their bid to host the Olympics in 2008, and arms sales to Taiwan. It would be dangerous and myopic to link all those issues and turn them into a single win-or-lose game. Each issue should be decided on its own merits - as the administration is saying it will...
Some minor changes, like those proposed by Kaufman, should be made to keep the Clean Elections law viable. But the basic premise of the regulations is sound, and the legislature should resist any temptation to gut the bill...
...gradually exposing the child to the feared object or experience and teaching him or her, eventually, to live with it. Most of the time, doctors encourage parents of phobic kids to become involved in treatment, attending sessions and walking the child through the hierarchy of exposure - provided they can resist the natural impulse to step in and stop the session when the child starts to grow fearful. "Hard as it is for parents to watch," Phillipson says, "the only way for kids to get around the pain is to go through the pain...
...Bush is right to be worried about how it gets balanced. Congress has shown unequivocally over the past few years that there's no budget legislation it can't creatively account its way around, and no bit of pork it can resist squeezing in for the folks back home. Imagine what would happen with a "trigger" giving representatives more or less explicit permission...