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SUCH A POLICY is not only arrogant, it is--as Shultz cautioned in his Harvard address--short sighted and ultimately destructive. When we ignored the pleas of our allies, the Australians, we not only endangered the prospects for open free trade but also tarnished our reputation as good neighbors.
Such pests are invading the U.S. in increasing numbers, with sometimes dire effects on agriculture, forests, public health and even people's homes. The Mediterranean fruit fly, which threatened California citrus crops in 1980-82, is thought to have arrived in a tourist's peach. Africanized "killer" bees, sighted for...
Squeezed into a raft designed to accommodate six, the eight survivors subsisted for four days and nights on meager rations of sea biscuits and gulps of water twice a day. "The days were barely tolerable," said Flanagan. "The nights were hell." The survivors used up their only three emergency flares...
The fun aspect of the Bush fiasco is that it is a rare instance of definite political payback. That is, Bush did something clearly egregious--put a big $250 cowboy boot right in the old mouth--in calling for price controls, and the voters in the rest of non-Texas...
In light of the potential for disinvestment to grievously harm the Black population, to indulge in short-sighted moral posturing over Harvard's portfolio is irresponsible and self-serving. Moreover, to concentrate exclusively on South Africa is inconsistent at best and hypocritical at worst. While demanding divestiture from companies which...