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According to admissions officials at Harvard and other schools, the impact such discrepancies have on financial aid budgets, coupled with the recession, threaten not only the decades-old policies of need-blind admissions and need-based financial aid but also racial and economic diversity on college campuses everywhere...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: STAYING AFLOAT AFTER OVERLAP | 1/8/1992 | See Source »

Bush's behavior, representing what Israeli Health Minister Ehud Olmert called "an administration that doesn't try or pretend to show, even for appearances, some amount of friendship" to Israel, only serves to threaten the current peace talks...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: Empty Chairs at Empty Tables | 12/6/1991 | See Source »

...calling for negotiation of an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights, Bush not only proposed action opposed by virtually the entire political spectrum in Israel, but also called into question policies that could greatly threaten Israel's existence...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: Empty Chairs at Empty Tables | 12/6/1991 | See Source »

...reelection campaign, President Bush has a serious image problem. This time it's not the "wimp factor" or a lack of a "vision thing" that threaten his candidacy--those notions were dispelled nicely by last winter's macho war in the Persian Gulf...

Author: By Steven V. Mazie, | Title: Tricky George | 12/3/1991 | See Source »

President Mahdi has been unable to establish his government outside the capital area, and northern Somalia, declaring itself a republic, seceded in May. Now rival clans throughout the country have begun choosing sides in the battle for Mogadishu and threaten a return to full-scale warfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Somalia: The Battle of Mogadishu | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

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