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...returns from Baghdad this week, will report to the U.N. Security Council on Feb. 14 on the degree of Iraqi disarmament and cooperation. On the good assumption that Blix will not give Saddam Hussein's regime a clean bill of health, Security Council members are beginning to consider the shape of a final resolution, though no drafts have yet been circulated...
Industry sources tell TIME that oil-service companies like Schlumberger, Baker Hughes and Halliburton as well as construction giant Bechtel Group could split contracts worth up to $2 billion for getting Iraq's oil infrastructure back in shape. U.S. and European oil conglomerates will scramble for rights to exploit Iraq's oil deposits. But the Europeans are worried that the U.S might see the postwar period as payback time for their governments' foot dragging...
...afterward about what they meant. "Only a genius of [Pauling's] stature," writes Watson, summarizing Franklin's attitude, "could play like a ten-year-old boy and still get the right answer." Wilkins made the mistake of declaring publicly that Franklin's images suggested that DNA had a helical shape. Franklin was incensed. He had no right, she believed, to even be working on X-raying DNA, something she was led to believe was her exclusive domain at King's College...
That is why, if we do not join the protesters ourselves—in fact, the vast majority of us choose not to—we offer them our tacit support. We infer from their tirades the progressive visions they should be advocating. We allow them to shape the landscape of political debate, centering the ideological spectrum around their radical liberalism and radicalizing moderate conservative perspectives. We allow angry protesters to define the zeitgeist of the Harvard experience...
...appeals court nomination of a Law School alum left the U.S. Senate deadlocked last night, with Democrats continuing their three-day-old charge to stymy the appointment—an effort that is taking the shape of an old-fashioned filibuster...