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...proposal for such expulsions from the new LPF Minister for Immigration and Integration Hilbrand Nawijn has been roundly rejected by his coalition partners. Robert Roks, the principal of a special school for foreign-born children in Rotterdam's Spangen neighborhood, will likely feel the sting of any tougher government line. Every year, the city takes in 1,000 new pupils from abroad; those who do badly on a state-administered intelligence test - from Namibian child soldiers and destitute Angolese to poor kids from the mountains of Morocco - come to Roks' school. But the Fortuyn effect has already almost halved...
...course, affectionately known as “Sex,” has long enjoyed a favorable reputation but according to some students became considerably tougher last year—a contention that appeared to be reflected in falling CUE Guide ratings...
...battles will be all the tougher to call given the gubernatorial race’s potential to motivate unusually high turnout, according to Cambridge political observer Robert Winters. The governor’s race, which has heated up in recent weeks, will probably inspire more voters to take a stand on one of the four big local names, he said...
Moderates who support a tougher line against Iraq but oppose a pre-emptive U.S. war are pushing a compromise plan: a new system of "coercive" inspections, under which the U.N. Security Council would call for weapons monitors to return to Iraq backed by a U.S.-led military force that could shoot its way into suspicious facilities or mount an all-out invasion if Iraqi recalcitrance persisted. "It's comply or else," says retired Air Force General Charles Boyd, an advocate of coercive inspections. "We say to Saddam, 'You can submit to unfettered inspections, or you can have an invasion...
Harvard’s Ivy opener at Penn yesterday provided tougher competition, however, as the Quakers held a 2-1 lead late into the second and kept McDavitt off the scoreboard. But in the end, Penn couldn’t control Harvard’s much-improved corner battery, and that proved to be the difference in a 4-2 Crimson...