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RAFSANJANI No, we're not willing to suspend. But we're ready to provide greater assurances to the world that we won't move from peaceful nuclear technology to military technology. If we need time and negotiations for creating this confidence, we're prepared. Our key policy is that the world move toward total nuclear disarmament...
...have been kidnapped for ransom, and many more have received death threats simply for doing their jobs. Many top professors have quit and fled the country. As a result, only 28% of those now teaching have a Ph.D., according to the U.N. study; several colleges have been forced to suspend postgraduate courses and reduce the number accepted for undergraduate study. "Who would want to teach here?" says al-Bakaa. "It takes a brave man, a patriot, to teach in this country...
...wonk who wrote the document "arrogant, cretinous and incompetent" but stopped short of calling the author a clown. (Had he done so, the government's vocabulary primer explains, "the professional who makes a living from making other people laugh might get offended.") When asked why the administration decided to suspend distribution of the document, Perly Cipriano, the tight-lipped Deputy Secretary for Human Rights, said, "Because of the criticism," and nothing more. --By Andrew Downie
...evident double standard sets a poor example for the student body and for the wider community. A student caught committing a similar crime might face the termination of his academic career. And while we are not suggesting that the university suspend or expel Professor Tribe, we believe that it is up to the university to levy a punishment that does not demonstrate such a lamentable disciplinary double standard...
...space-based defenses are, of course, the biggest issues, but there are many other important ones that are hardly less contentious. For example: chemical weapons, which the U.S. has proposed banning, while the Soviets want to retain existing stockpiles; and nuclear testing, which the Soviets have offered to suspend totally, while the U.S. insists that such a moratorium would be unverifiable. However, should the two sides wish to demonstrate that they can agree on something, there are a few possibilities. They could, for example, issue a strong statement on nuclear nonproliferation, a topic on which they are in rare complete...