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...stretch a little now that the Soviet Union has fallen, because we can be confident they would snap back in the face of a real threat. But Michael Howard, former British Home Secretary, has just started a new group, Atlantic Partnership, precisely because he fears the alliance may suffer permanent damage from a rising tide of special-interest squabbles. Rudolf Scharping, the German Defense Minister, recently declared that the E.U. must set its security policy toward Russia. Americans noticed he didn't say nato. What if the dispute on missile defense grows into divergent stances toward Moscow? What if Europe...
Restaveks who do get away have grim stories to tell. A young man recently went to Romer with hideous burns from an iron, a punishment by his West Palm Beach, Fla., "host" family whenever he didn't press their clothes correctly. Aside from losing their childhood, restaveks suffer separation from their own families. At the Maurice Sixto shelter in Port-au-Prince, Ania Derice, 18, recalls how her parents in rural central Haiti, who couldn't afford to feed and clothe her, sent her to a house in Port-au-Prince to be a restavek. When Ania was 12--after...
...Africa's most powerful government--the apartheid regime in South Africa--by threatening to call in its loans. The West must exercise that option again and apply pressure, especially against governments that turn a blind eye to traditional cultural practices that abuse women. The West must help those who suffer. LLEWELLYN VAN WYK Cape Town...
...Lemann says in his brilliant history, The Big Test, an SAT honcho wrote to his colleagues of the dire consequences if U.C. decided to end its then limited use of the test: "If they drop the SAT, we will lose a great deal more than the revenue; we will suffer a damaging blow to our prestige...
...High schools are changing too. Baby boomer parents have started movements against homework, stringent graduation requirements, class rankings; it's as though they believe their children should never have to suffer the indignity of being evaluated. Pity those kids when they get their first job. Last month Laila Kouri, 16, reflected on the SAT as she sat through an expensive coaching class in ritzy Westport, Conn. "I know people who blow off classes, are failing school and walk into the SAT and get a 1200 the first time," she sighed. "How can this be a fair test?" Well, as Kouri...