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...opponents say the problem is more than a matter of bad manners and bruised egos: Bolton's pattern of intimidation, they claim, was also aimed at distorting vital intelligence. Government sources tell TIME that during President Bush's first term, Bolton frequently tried to push the CIA to produce information to conform to--and confirm--his views. "Whenever his staff sent testimony, speeches over for clearance, often it was full of stuff which was not based on anything we could find," says a retired official familiar with the intelligence-clearance process. "So the notes that would go back...
...very grateful to Werner Sollors, very grateful to all of his colleagues who have been involved in organizing this conference because it seems to me that a University with our traditions, a University with a commitment to our values, has an obligation to promote discussion on the vital issues that today's vexed relationships with the Native American community pose...
...opening of a new and possibly contentious era throughout much of the West. Within the next few months, the maze of aqueducts, pumping stations, tunnels, siphons and control gates now stretching 198 miles across Arizona's desert will change the way the region manages, and divvies up, its vital water resources...
...straight-line projection that ignores the risk of unforeseeable events or friction in the relationship. How easy is it, after all, to predict the behavior of an authoritarian regime that leads 1.3 billion people? But for governments and the forward scouts of free enterprise, such future-gazing is vital. To a medium-sized country like Australia, China's economic and political rise seems irresistible. The two countries have been been growing closer for some three decades, since Australia gave diplomatic recognition to the communist People's Republic in 1972. China's growth and reform have continued with barely a blip...
...doubles point would indeed prove vital, for Harvard and the Quakers would split the singles competition right down the middle...