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Bush’s proposed arms sale would send a strong signal to the Chinese government that the U.S. is no longer interested in maintaining the peaceful status quo. Besides the bad timing of the move, the sale could be construed as giving Taiwan offensive capability0. In the past, we have sold only defensive weapons to Taiwan, but the submarines included in the proposed deal could be used for the purpose of attack. The Bush administration should tread lightly over this issue, understanding that Taiwan is too important to the Chinese for them to ignore any aggressive moves...
Though the U.S. has a strong interest in strengthening the Kostunica government, it should still exert significant diplomatic pressure on Serbia to ensure that Milosevic will face justice. Failing to insist on this point would send a signal to future war criminals that they do not need to fear extradition so long as the government that succeeds them is democratically elected...
...faculty recruiting procedures to pre-empt empty lecture halls, students having chosen to imbibe their information elsewhere online, or to prevent the world from viewing some of the almost laughably poor lecturers who grace the venerated science departments. At worst, this burgeoning open market of information transfer specialists might signal Harvard’s first step toward obsolescence. But maybe that wouldn’t be so bad?...
...earth's climate does change. Ice ages have frosted the planet for tens of thousands of years at a stretch, and periods of warmth have pushed the tropics well into what is now the temperate zone. But given the normal year-to-year variations, the only reliable signal that such changes may be in the works is a long-term shift in worldwide temperature...
...better headline for your cover would have been 'The Media Effect.' The relentless coverage of these tragedies provides a blueprint for every disillusioned kid in America to exact revenge." And a New York City reader urged us to "stop publishing the names and photos of the perpetrators; you should signal that school violence leads only to certain punishment and scorn...