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Freedman has embarked on an ambitious program to promote "scholarship" at Dartmouth, hiring new faculty and attempting to strengthen the undergraduate curriculum...
Meanwhile, the Syrians are exasperated by the aid Washington has promised Israel. For the first time the U.S. is to supply Jerusalem with Patriot missile systems, which will greatly strengthen Israel's antiaircraft defenses. Such unqualified U.S. support for Jerusalem makes Assad's alignment with Washington all the harder to sell at home. But at least one diplomat in Damascus believes Syrian authorities may be inflating their assessments of the domestic opposition to convince Washington of the need to downplay relations with Israel. Damascus has asserted that if Jerusalem gets involved in any conflagration in the region, it will quickly...
...muddling through is a better idea, working down the debt over many years. By making things for export rather than for our own consumption, by spending more on infrastructure and less on shopping centers, and by spending less on the elderly and more on preschoolers, we could gradually strengthen our national balance sheet...
...while doing nothing to stop them. Congressional hearings in the absence of a vote would probably produce nothing more than a cacophony of criticism that Saddam, and America's European and Arab allies, would view as an indication of U.S. indecision. They might thus tend to undermine, rather than strengthen, the international alliance that Bush has assembled...
...nation's feminists still hope to end the suffering of the Agunot. Alice Shalvi, chairwoman of the Israel Women's Network, wants to strengthen the civil courts by giving them the power to threaten husbands with financial penalties and even arrest them if they refuse to release their wives from broken marriages. In Israel's volatile political climate, that seemingly sane proposal stands little chance of success...