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...numbers for last year--16 assaults with a deadly weapon, three sexual assaults, 127 burglaries--show both that security problems persist on campus, and for the case of sexual assaults, they persist much more than reported. Publishing these numbers--and working to make them more accurate--is an important first step; the next should be to reduce those numbers. Harvard must take several key steps to make this campus genuinely safe for students...
...perennial battle against the city's rent control system, City Councillor William H. Walsh is always looking for new methods of attack. And if the conservative Independent gets his way, Harvard Real Estate (HRE) may turn out to be his latest weapon...
...delivery of food and medicine to Iraq or its import of Iraqi oil. China and Iran hint they are rethinking the question. Altogether, nine countries have indicated that they may seek exemptions from the embargo. From these early signals it is clear that starvation will not become a U.N. weapon. The U.S. does not want to starve Iraq either; its plan is to make Iraqis' diet so minimal that they will become resentful and discontented...
...speculation. The first is that Americans like short battles but don't have the endurance for protracted conflicts (remember Vietnam). That may be true, but it seems a poor excuse for rushing into an attack on Iraq. More serious is the concern that Saddam Hussein might acquire nuclear weapons, a danger that the Israelis offered as the justification for their 1981 air raid on an Iraqi nuclear plant. It is worth emphasizing, though, that Iraq does not now have a nuclear weapon. Western intelligence agencies estimate that Saddam could build one in something like five years. A nuclear-armed Iraq...
...fight inflation, the Bank of Japan is using the only weapon in its arsenal: higher interest rates. A credit squeeze seems likely. John Hickling, portfolio manager of Fidelity Investments' Pacific Basin Fund, thinks the liquidity drought has arrived. Since nothing spooks stock-market investors like the prospect of rising interest rates and a credit crunch, Japanese shareholders have been cleaning out their portfolios, driving the Nikkei average on the Tokyo exchange down more than 30% from its late December high...