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...refugees. On economic issues, he is passionate and smart. "He likes to call people in to talk about tariff reduction," says a Western diplomat in Amman. "He's fascinated by details, whereas the king's eyes will glaze over." In 1972, Hassan established the Royal Scientific Society, a think tank that has produced some of Jordan's leading economic experts. A proponent of IMF-style adjustments, Hassan currently oversees a program of cautious reform, including price decontrols and bank liberalizations...
...report released Tuesday by Testing for the Public, a Berkeley, Calif.-based think-tank showed large differences between the LSAT scores of minority and white students with identical GPAs...
...discussion, jointly sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Club, the Harvard Salient and the Intercollegiate Institute, a conservative think-tank, consisted of a half-hour speech followed by an extended question and answer session lasting about 40 minutes...
...known of the cockpit's communications with air-traffic controllers appears to rule out terrorism. But not the terror of mechanical failure. And so the questions were asked. Was it a problem akin to what most probably destroyed TWA 800--a stray spark igniting gases in a fuel tank? Or was it some hazardous, poorly packed cargo like the kind that destroyed ValuJet Flight 592 over the Florida Everglades? Or was it something else, some yet unknown and insidious little technicality...
...missile would fit nicely with that strategy. "This may be a way of poking us and saying, 'Pay attention to North Korea. We can still be a pain in the neck,'" says Joel Wit, a senior associate at the Henry L. Stimson Center, a Washington-based public policy think tank. The delayed negotiations resumed Saturday in New York, and State Department officials reported progress in the talks. They will brief the White House this week...