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...from Turkey is instructive: Ankara has indicated that it would support a war only if the U.S. coughs up more than $30 billion in financial aid to Turkey, and gets UN authorization to assuage the country's overwhelmingly antiwar public opinion. The Turks have also insisted that the price tag for allowing the U.S. to mount an invasion from their territory includes Turkey's right to protect its own interests in Northern Iraq, where it may be on a collision course with local Kurdish leaders. Turkey is unconvinced by the case for war, but will make practical arrangements to secure...
...pleas of students, cable television at Harvard has always been a pipe dream. Last year, when a working group of the Committee on House Life (CHL) met to investigate the possibility of wiring Harvard with cable television, the idea was deemed unfeasible. Six months of research uncovered a price tag in the millions of dollars for the infrastructure necessary to bring cable television to dorm rooms...
...quality and with being able to watch their favorite shows in the comfort of their dorms. According to the Daily Northwestern, its students living in the dorms are getting all twenty stations for only $121.20 a year—or about $12.50 per month of school. With a price tag lower than a dinner at Spice each month, most Harvard students would be more than willing...
...third of their journeys at a standstill.) Rebellion has already taken hold in some corners. Newspapers and websites have shared suggestions for dodging the charge: from high-tech devices that blur the number plate at the flick of a switch to cruder tactics like rubbing mud all over the tag. Motorists Against Detection, which claims to have destroyed hundreds of speed cameras throughout the U.K., plans to torch, spray-paint and run over the congestion-fee cameras, too. "We've clearly paid for these roads already," says a member of the group, who declines to be named. "We're like...
...taking out full-page ads in the New York Times. But is this all just much ado about nothing? The U.S. government does use its purchasing power as both a carrot and a stick, but formal sanctions just won't happen. And private corporations, like GE, got their "multinational" tag for a reason - they'll sign contracts wherever they get the best deal. As for average U.S. consumers, they've shown little compunction about buying diamonds that fund bloody militias in Africa, so in the long term they're unlikely to lose their appetite for flash rocks over a mere...