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...answer is not to toughen up bag checks. Given that access to the library is controlled, the number of potential thefts is small. Also, the most valuable books Harvard owns are not in the general stacks. These rare and expensive books are kept securely in special collections and have their own security measures. The bag checks simply act as an unnecessary annoyance to library patrons...
...power to take Iraqi scientists and their families out of their country to be interviewed beyond the reach of Saddam's retribution. Some Washington hawks have even suggested that the scientists be forcibly removed, although Blix dismissed suggestions that UNMOVIC would "abduct" people. Still, Washington's efforts to toughen up the inspection regime may focus on this particular dimension, which may also be the most difficult one for Saddam to digest. But the U.S. may be frustrated by the limits on its ability to direct UNMOVIC's mission...
...building from the knowledge of fellow classmates, students will instead compete for precious class time and participation points, and teaching fellows will be forced to invent distinctions between equally good papers that can’t both receive A’s. Mansfield could have chosen merely to toughen grading standards in the course; instead, his choice of a numeric quota upsets the principles of fairness on which his campaign against grade inflation is based...
This means war, Morrow informed us before the dust had settled on Manhattan Island. But what does it mean to "toughen up" and give the "uncivilized" their due when the barbarians are not waiting at the gate but are already among us? To resort to hatred in this crisis is to pull the pin on a hand grenade without having anywhere to throw it. JONATHAN HARTGROVE St. Davids...
...worst times, as we see, separate the civilized of the world from the uncivilized. This is the moment of clarity. Let the civilized toughen up, and let the uncivilized take their chances in the game they started...