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...desire to implement the Mitchell Report, but their interpretations of the report's proposals are so divergent that in the absence of a referee decisively laying down the law, both sides' stated support for Mitchell's proposals has little meaning in reality. That leaves the Bush administration having to weigh the merits of staying on the sidelines as violence potentially spins out of control against the relative probability of failure if they choose to intervene. Damned if they do and damned if they...
...report is essentially a technical assessment of each city's readiness to mount an Olympic-scale spectacle - Istanbul and Osaka fared badly on this score, making them rank outsiders - ahead of a July vote by IOC members to award the games. Although political considerations are not supposed to weigh directly in IOC deliberations, delegates won't be unaware of the political implications of their choice. Beijing has made hosting the Olympiad a diplomatic priority, particularly after it lost to Sydney in the bid for 2000. And that vote reveals the complex politics of the voting process, in which each round...
...space. A typical flat panel is less than 3 in. deep. That's because the bulky, funnel-shaped tube in standard monitors is replaced with a flat, fluorescent bulb and a thin layer of transistors. Including their stands, flat monitors rarely extend more than 7 in. deep or weigh more than 12 lbs.; monitors with CRTs (cathode-ray tubes) are up to three times as deep and twice as heavy. Flat screens also save energy, reduce eyestrain and look really cool...
...College Board plans to conduct a major study over the summer to weigh the effect of time on exam performance. The College Board plans to have high school juniors take the take an exam under regular and time and a half conditions, and though these results will not affect college admissions, the results of the survey will most likely be used in the panel's evaluation, Camara said...
...weigh in on weddings, you can e-mail Courtney at timefamily@aol.com