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...students are an intelligent bunch of people who would take appropriate measures to minimize crime, but we aren't always as smart as we should be with regard to this issue. While none of the recent swindlers in the Square successfully victimized Harvard students, con men employing the same tactic were able to prey on several students...
...four years Saddam Hussein has tried to hide his program to build weapons of mass destruction from the U.N. As long as Iraq is suspected of violating the U.N. weapons proscriptions, it will suffer from a crushing economic embargo, so every tactic is worth a try. When lies haven't worked, Saddam has revealed information, but only those facts that he knew U.N. inspectors would eventually discover on their own. Pentagon officials have come to call the ploy "cheat and retreat." Last week, in a major retreat, Baghdad confessed that it could have made the 1991 Persian Gulf...
...tactic, humility was clearly not an option. Not for Bernie Nussbaum. In repeated exchanges with Republicans on the special Senate Whitewater committee last week, the former White House counsel defiantly insisted that he had done exactly the right thing in July 1993 when he restricted the ability of federal investigators to review documents in Vince Foster's office in the days after Foster's apparent suicide. "I'm proud of my conduct," Nussbaum declared at one point. To which Alabama's Richard Shelby, a former Democrat, replied with a convert's contempt for his old faith: "You're probably...
...does everyone always think education is the panacea for poverty? My husband and I attended private schools and colleges, and we hold master's degrees. We have been employed in our chosen fields since graduation. Come bill time, however, we find ourselves sending partial payments as a stalling tactic. To avoid the high cost of day care-an expense our combined earnings couldn't begin to cover-we work opposite shifts. Our parents have even taken over our car payments. We often marvel at the fact that two well-educated white-collar workers like ourselves are worse off financially than...
Desperate Bosnian government soldiers in Zepa, the second Muslim "safe area" to come under Serb attack, commandeered 370 U.N. peacekeepers' weapons and threatened to take them hostage unless NATO staged airstrikes to protect the town.Rebel Serbs, who perfected the "human shield" tactic in previous standoffs with international troops, said they would respond to any NATO airstrikes by shooting at Ukrainian peacekeepers in a base they already control. (NATO planes made a show of flying over Zepa for several hours Sunday but the U.N. has not requested their presence since.) The Serbs, who pressed to within a mile of Zepa today...