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...unfriendly" disagreements between Washington and Moscow these days. There have been frequent rhetorical clashes over Moscow's decision to renew arms sales to Tehran, Washington's insistence it will go ahead with missile-defense systems, Russian President Vladimir Putin's efforts to drum up global resistance to the shield. The Russians were incensed by an interview in which Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld branded them an "active proliferator." Deputy Paul Wolfowitz chimed in, calling the Russian leaders "people willing to sell anything to anyone for money," who get billions in U.S. aid, then "turn around and do smaller quantities of obnoxious...
...Korea's missile program is Exhibit A in the case for building a national missile defense, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, for one, has spent much of the past five years talking up the imminent missile threat from Pyongyang as a reason to hurry the deployment of a missile shield. If North Korea's missiles could be negotiated away for a couple of hundred million dollars in aid, that might seem a more appealing option to many on Capitol Hill than spending billions to deploy a missile shield...
...ever, do these discussions touch on SATs, even for students who turn in 800s. The committee does dwell, however, on other scores, like those on Advanced Placement exams, SAT II's if students submit them and even state tests like New York's Regents Exams. For students who shield their SATs, these secondary scores inevitably take on more weight. The committee, for example, is divided over one straight-A applicant. Then assistant director Debbie McCain Wesley mentions that the student took just two AP courses out of 15 offered by her school--and scored...
...deal with North Korea's missiles, of course, is the subject of one of the fundamental planks of the Bush administration's foreign policy - national missile defense. Pyongyang's presumed missile capability has been Exhibit A in making the case for a shield designed to protect the U.S. from warheads fired by "rogue" states, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has spent much of the past five years talking up the North Korean threat. Rumsfeld and other administration hawks have never been comfortable with the Clinton policy of offering North Korea economic aid in exchange for curbing its roguish ways, seeing...
Meanwhile, Russia has graciously offered to share its missile defense technology with the rest of Europe (NATO allies included), opening the possibility of creating a missile shield for the entire continent. Such an agreement would essentially destroy NATO, and divide the world along Cold War-type lines. But this time around it would not be Eastern Bloc vs. the West; it would be Europe vs. the United States...