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Dartmouth's move recycles ideas used in aid reforms at Princeton, Yale, Stanford, MIT and finally Harvard last month. Princeton set off the chain of reforms with a bold move to attract middle income students--breaking up a system of tacit Ivy cooperation that had stood for 30 years...
...shrinking defense outlays, it faced a $270 billion annual budget that would just keep pace with inflation. The military would have to kill some costly cold war-era weapons programs, slash its 1.4 million-man fighting force or undercut the readiness of U.S. troops to fight. But the tacit alliance last week of President, Pentagon and lawmakers averts any major, post-cold war restructuring of the U.S. military. And postponing that day of reckoning will be expensive for taxpayers...
...next day, national prayers, which are broadcast countrywide, were led by Ayatullah Mohammed Yazdi, the judiciary head who is close to Khamenei. He referred to Khatami's visit to the U.N. and to other issues, but said nothing about the Rushdie affair, which Iranian analysts interpreted as lending tacit support. The decision is a victory for Khatami. He and the hard-liners will next square off in October when Iranians elect a new Assembly of Experts, a body that has the right to select the next Supreme Leader...
...paramilitary massacres peasants, human rights workers, and left-wing activists at will, without fear of reprisal, and often with the tacit consent of Colombian security forces. While the State Department insists that no violators of human rights benefit from U.S. assistance, the accountability of an inept and abusive Colombian military is far from assured. Currently, 10 soldiers are under investigation for committing human rights abuses themselves, and many more cases have been hushed up. Given the Colombian military's extremely poor human rights record, the reality is that we have no way of knowing whether our aid reaches human rights...
...second instance, with which we are all more familiar, concerned President Nixon. During the course of the Watergate investigation, it became clear that Nixon had been using one government agency to obstruct the investigations of another, and that his subordinates, with his tacit approval, had committed a remarkable litany of felonies...