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...Yugoslavia policies to date have abetted strife at least as much as they have contained it. Foreign leaders failed to warn Serbia off. Concentration on humanitarian efforts plays into the hands of Serbs who want to create as many refugees as possible -- and who perhaps mean to pursue the tactic to "cleanse" other Serb-minority territory closer to Hungary, Albania, Greece and Turkey. Faced with Western inaction, Turkey and Iran are watching the nearby anti-Muslim pogrom more and more anxiously...
Another section of the Act will stop college and university police departments from claiming that law enforcement records about students are actually educational records, which must be kept private under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Some college police departments have been using that tactic to hide public information about students who commit crimes...
...Sitting in the Rose Garden, they were understandably reluctant to embarrass their host. Yet even Bush's programmed responses were revealing. For one thing, astute viewers learned that the President's phrase "Let me put that in perspective" is like a road sign: EVASIVE GENERALIZATION AHEAD. And Bush's tactic of touting his Administration's record at every turn seemed laughably transparent. "How are you helping the rain forest?" asked a little girl from Georgia. "By having the best environmental record of any country," replied the President...
...that he means nothing as simple or gimmicky as having men climb into the stirrups, a tactic that is being tried in a few medical schools. "What I'm talking about is a rigorous exposure to the female perspective on life and males, how vulnerable they feel in the world, not just in the doctor's office," explains Smith. "A woman's specialist needs to go beyond anatomy, beyond having babies and periods. He or she needs to be an expert in female sexuality, social interaction, cultural values, anxieties and fears, the total psychological makeup of being a woman." They...
...arguments are attempt to convince people that one's beliefs are correct. That is basically what Harvard's commitment to "veritas" is all about. All moves to stifle argument can be seen as attempts to narrow the scope of debate such that some beliefs are never questioned--a frightening tactic for house masters to employ...