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...grow. The possibility that Iraq or North Korea could acquire nuclear or highly lethal chemical weapons poses a deadly threat to their peoples, their regions and the world. The free peoples of the world, especially the French, Germans and Russians, need to fall in behind the United States to rid the Earth of its worst dictators. Just ask yourself, whose beliefs do you think will begin to build lasting peace, and whose will result in a more destructive...
...same time, Julius Caesar introduced the first off-street parking laws. In A.D. 125, a limit was placed on the number of vehicles that could enter Rome. For as long as there have been roads, it seems, there have been crowds of swearing, sweaty drivers - and schemes to get rid of them. But now traffic is so bad - costing the European Union €40 billion a year - that some cities are getting serious about fighting back. This week, London careers into Europe's most radical traffic-control experiment of the past half-century. Every vehicle that enters the city center...
...Many colleges would get rid of binding early decision if others would do so as well, but each prefers to keep binding decision for itself, whatever the other does,” he says...
While we certainly can’t altogether get rid of dudness (dudditude? duditry?), there is a very simple way to slightly reduce its prevalence. More transfers means fewer duds...
...policy, but the fact is that we do not live in a race-blind society, for better or for worse. So, to implement such a policy today, especially in educational institutions that are the only doorway to a better life for many people of color, is ridiculous. To get rid of affirmative action altogether would be treating the symptom and not the disease. Instead of just calling for minority leaders to cry out against affirmative action and discrimination, whites need to look at their role in solving the problem as well; and everyone needs to look hard at how deep...