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JEFFERSON: I think that the President's policies are very risky to the economy. I don't see how it is really stimulating the economy. It raises questions with regard to fairness. And it raises the specter of high inflation in the future if things don't pan out exactly the way the Administration thought...
...look at what happened after the Ayatullah Khomeini seized power in Iran in 1979 and raised the specter of a radical, anti-American Islamic nation with messianic impulses for the region. Over the next decade two Presidents, anxious for a counterforce to Iran's fundamentalist ambitions, gave diplomatic, financial and military assistance to the secular, "modernist" regime of Iraq's Saddam Hussein. By 1990, with Saddam in Kuwait and threatening the Saudis, the U.S. realized the error of its ways and dispatched half a million troops to help free Kuwait from the grip of its neighbor Iraq. Surely, we assumed...
...that if Saddam manages to retain command and control of his forces, he will try to unleash chemical and biological weapons against allied troops and that most of those weapons are in the hands of forces close to the capital. Among the soldiers moving toward Baghdad last week, the specter of unconventional warfare was never far from their minds, as they endured the heat of their biochemical suits while riding in tanks and armored personnel vehicles. "We fully expect to face a dirty battlefield at some point," says Colonel Daniel Allyn, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division's 3rd Brigade...
Hopefully the specter of preregistration is gone for good, and that these suggestions, or others like them, will be applied to the deeply-rooted flaws in much of the undergraduate curriculum. Improving the quality of instruction, which was the original motivation for the Administration’s plans, now lies with the curricular review. For now, preregistration can take its place in the pantheon of old news, next to Randy and Suzanne and the Snow Penis. Hopefully the still-needed reforms will not be next...
...expect this year's total number to dip to near 100, hopefully dragging down the murder rate accordingly. And despite what you might reasonably think after hearing the terrible stories of Elizabeth Smart (who was returned safely home more than nine months after her abduction) and Samantha Runnion, the specter of kidnapping by strangers should not be parents' primary concern; parents themselves perpetrate more than 98 percent of all kidnappings, according to the DOJ. While about 700,000 missing children reports were filed in 2001, only a tiny percentage of those cases were non-family abductions. And here...