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...think the ideal situation would be a scenario where women and men each had their own final clubs, all affiliated with the school," says Phoenix, S.K. Club PresidentSimon S. Cheng '00. "If that were resolved we'dalso be affiliated with Harvard, which would solvea lot of liability issues...
...NIGHTMARE SCENARIO...
...purge if bombing started. But they believed his intent was to crush the K.L.A. and then gradually drive out the entire ethnic Albanian population. Among political decision makers at NATO and at the White House, conventional wisdom also said Milosevic would cave after a few days of bombing. That scenario seemed so convincing that they settled on an air campaign of gradual escalation, beginning with limited attacks and building in sufficient pauses for Belgrade to capitulate. U.S. intelligence had no qualms about the military plan: even if Milosevic stepped up Operation Horseshoe, they believed, he couldn't empty Kosovo...
...oversaw what the government said was retaliatory U.S. attacks against North Vietnamese gunboats in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964, an episode that escalated American involvement in Vietnam; in Virginia Beach, Va. Some scholars suggest that President Lyndon Johnson, under fire for not acting aggressively in Vietnam, invented the scenario of unprovoked attacks from North Vietnam to justify deeper U.S. engagement...
...serious intent. Harry Harrison's novel Make Room! Make Room! (source of the movie Soylent Green) predicted a New York City crammed with 35 million people, each allotted a meager four square yards of living space. That novel is set today--in 1999. It was published in 1966. The scenario made sense back then, before the advent of widespread birth control. All you had to do was follow the exponential curves...