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...appears, however, Baghdad had dispatched its troops on orders with strict rules of engagement. Instead of easily overwhelming the hastily collected defenders the Iraqi advance halted and eventually turned back, just three hours after the operation began. They covered their retreat with renewed mortar fire and drove their trucks, armored vehicles and tanks back over the ridge, re-entering their own lines...
...Secretary Rod Paige appointed a 15-member Commission on Opportunity in Athletics to consider changes to Title IX. The move dismayed the law's defenders, who believe that the White House is intent on rolling back years of gains. During his campaign for President, Bush said he was against "strict proportionality" in Title IX. And last year he appointed affirmative-action opponent Gerald Reynolds to head the Office of Civil Rights, the department charged with overseeing the law's enforcement. The commission is scheduled to make its recommendations to Paige this week, though he is not required to take...
...response to a student group’s complaint that their anti-abortion posters are being destroyed, the Undergraduate Council passed a resolution last night calling for strict enforcement of the University’s free speech guarantees...
...quarter of the party) seems devastated by his move to the center. They've groused especially loudly about Meirelles and Finance Minister Antonio Palocci, a physician who, as a PT mayor in the '90s, engineered a very unsocialist privatization of local utilities. Both men have pledged to adhere to strict economic targets that the International Monetary Fund set last year in return for a $30 billion loan to Brazil. Senator Heloísa Helena, part of a PT group that wants Brazil to default on its $208 billion foreign debt, says she is "sad and disillusioned" by the government...
...Antonio Palocci A former mayor, the Finance Minister has pledged to keep to strict IMF targets...