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...aloofness is mutual, and for good reason: it is not easy to forget Assad's actions, like the 1982 massacre of some 20,000 civilians in the Syrian town of Hama while routing out Muslim fundamentalists, and his sponsorship of terrorists. "Assad's grisly record makes him unfit to serve as anything more than a temporary and tactical ally," says Daniel Pipes, director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia...
...this new alternative, though, is not clear, since Norplant's long-term safety has yet to be fully studied, and it does have a few side effects. Some critics fear that the five-year implant will be used by policymakers as a way of forcing contraception on women deemed unfit for motherhood...
...fair, Silber has been an able adminstrator at B.U. Under his leadership, the University's academic prestige has increased dramatically. But the dictatorial methods he used to achieve these ends underscore the simple fact that he is unfit to be the governor of this or any other state. Such tactics are hardly acceptable in a private academic institution; they have no place in a democratic government...
...Vito Genovese. He apparently resolved to avoid the slammer: before this May, Gigante was arrested only once more, in 1970 on charges of trying to bribe the entire police force of Old Tappan, N.J. Gigante got the charges dropped after submitting a hospital report stating that he was mentally unfit to stand trial...
According to federal air-quality standards, the stuff that floats above Los Angeles is unfit for humans to breathe for more than half the year. As a / result, the second most populous city in the U.S. last year implemented the nation's toughest antismog regulations. United Parcel Services said last week it will comply with the new rules by converting its 2,700 delivery trucks in Los Angeles to cleaner-burning natural gas. By the year 2007, the city expects all its cars and trucks to run on cleaner fuel...