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...foreign affairs and why now? With the anemic economy showing signs of recovery, Clinton knows that in the fall Bush will be playing his strongest card and that even in a world of reduced threats Clinton must pass the threshold test: Can Americans trust him as Commander in Chief? Better, then, to lay some markers down early, especially when his critique and prescriptions are essentially centrist. There is also the possibility for an elegant piece of what Mario Cuomo calls "political jujitsu" -- stealing your opponent's thunder in an area he is perceived as owning...
Harvard, it seems, likes to attract young scholars, give them an opportunity to shine in a junior faculty position with the temptation of tenure and then drop them--even the best of them--on the threshold. By the time a junior professor comes up for tenure, he or she is usually just starting to excel and develop a base of scholarship. Translation: no tenure. It's a frustrating policy, both for teachers and for students, but as Peterson told me, shrugging, "It's part of life at Harvard...
...group of youths were creating a disturbance at the rear of Loeb Drama. While conducting a threshold inquiry, a clear plastic bag was sticking out of the suspect's pocket, which appeared to be marijuana. The suspect was arrested and evidence was secured. This will be sent to the state lab to be tested...
Buchanan also found victory in defeat. The conservative columnist didn't even surpass the symbolic threshold of 40 percent--although Wednesday's newspapers reported that...
...welfare payments to residents of non-French ancestry; former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing has hinted at refusing automatic citizenship to French-born children of immigrants. All three ideas came straight out of Le Pen's platform. Even Socialist President Francois Mitterrand once declared that France had passed "the threshold of tolerance" in absorbing African and Arab immigrants...