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...that leads only to war. Only in such a climate can the latest polls indicate that nearly 70 percent of Americans believe Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has nukes while even the weapons experts in the Oval Office haven’t dared make that claim. The vice president can warn every day of the imminent threat posed by a “murderous dictator” whose oil pipelines his company made millions repairing only four years ago. The secretary of defense can accuse Iraq of supporting al Qaeda while even the CIA has denied any evidence of such...
...guidance counselors at some of the elite schools that serve as “feeders” to the Ivy League expressed skepticism that NACAC would actually expel Princeton or Brown for refusing to comply. Moreover, they warn, if the organization did so, it might be paving the road to its own irrelevance...
...refined" its criteria for calculating low-performing schools; afterward, the number receiving Fs fell from 760 to 200. Michigan, California and Nevada are weighing similar actions. Says California's state schools chief Delaine Eastin: "We're almost surely going to have to lower what we define as proficient." Experts warn that the incentive to dumb down standards will only grow as the stricter provisions of the new law take effect, a move that could brand more than 70% of schools in some states as failing...
...evidence, two of the men were released due to pressure from Jakarta, official sources in the capital say. The Philippines came close to releasing the third man, Agus Dwikarna, at which point U.S. officials directly intervened with Megawati (as well as with Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo) to warn against allowing the release. Dwikarna was later tried and sentenced to 17 years in prison for possessing explosives...
Murphy certainly had reason to warn his team. Confesor finished with an eye-popping 318 all-purpose yards on the day, including 158 yards on five kickoff returns and 103 on three punts...