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...United Nations auspices. Cutting off the North's supply lines looks on the surface to be a useful strategy. Short of fuel, electricity and fertilizer, the North Korean economy has been steadily withering for years. Only foreign handouts keep the country's 23 million people from starvation, and the specter of another famine like the one that killed an estimated 2.5 million from 1996 to 1998 looms because donations have slowed to a trickle since the nuclear crisis began...
...specter of Iranian influence and homegrown anti-American radicalism had reportedly prompted the Pentagon to accelerate the timetable for putting in place a friendly Iraqi leadership - preferably led by its favorite Iraqi exile, Ahmad Chalabi - in order to diminish the period of direct rule by the U.S. military. But the State Department had warned against a rush to install an exile-dominated leadership of uncertain standing among Iraqis. Next week, Garner hands the reins of the transition over to Paul "Jerry" Bremer, a seasoned State Department antiterrorism official tapped to supercede the retired general as U.S. viceroy in Baghdad...
...Even a Republican, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, has asked for more time to study one of Bush's nominees, J. Leon Holmes of Arkansas. Holmes, a past president of Arkansas Right to Life, has asserted that "conceptions from rape occur with the same frequency as snow in Miami." In fact, according to a study published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, about 25,000 pregnancies each year are the result of rape...
More fundamentally, the SVMP admissions policy denies no opportunities to non-minority students; it only opens up doors that would otherwise be closed to these talented and exceptional minority leaders. Today’s business world is still, unfortunately, haunted by the very real specter of racism, and superficial nods to colorblindness can only hinder progress. SVMP serves as an irreplaceable booster to qualified minority students, helping them to prepare for a world in which they will almost certainly be victims of deep-seated prejudice and bias...
...Unless Iraq turns really messy, the Saudis could well succeed in this endeavor. As things stand, they need to worry less about the specter of domestic radicalism than on the external threat, especially the agenda of a very different set of radicals in faraway Washington...