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...down well in Islamabad, where Pakistan's parliament and cabinet are at loggerheads over whether to test their own device. "The Pakistanis are saying to the West: Try and stop us from doing this," says McGirk. Now that India has effectively broadcast its ability to wipe out their capital, stopping them just got a whole lot harder. Listen for more loud bangs soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India Brags About the Bomb | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

...corporate crusader Michael Moore visits Nike CEO Phil Knight to challenge the shoe company's use of cheap Indonesian labor. In the film Knight seems evasive, edgy and ultimately tripped up by Moore's relentless interrogation. But did the filmmaker unfairly tailor Knight's appearance? In an effort to wipe the treadmarks off his reputation, Knight has put outtakes on Nike's Website www.nikebiz.com) There Moore, who comes off as an attack dog in the film, is heard purring to Knight, "I honestly think you're the good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Apr. 27, 1998 | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...believe our proposal for a Code of Conduct represents the best and most realistic step that Harvard and other universities can take towards solving the problems of sweatshops such as child labor. The goal of the Code is not to simply wipe our hands clean of the problems in some overseas factories, but to have a positive impact on working and living conditions in those areas. A sentence in the section on child labor in our proposed Code states: "Licensees agree to work with governmental, human rights, and non-governmental organizations as determined by Harvard University and licensee, to minimize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Child Labor Claims Invalid | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

...F.D.R. was portrayed as a profligate spender, his largest peacetime deficit was a feeble $3.6 billion in 1936--far less, even when corrected for inflation, than deficits routinely produced 50 years later by Reagan. It took World War II and the Defense Department to create deficits large enough to wipe out unemployment, proving the case for a compensatory fiscal policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...often the case early in the season when managers experiment with inexperienced pitchers and hurlers wipe the winter's dust off their arms, Harvard's pitchers were no models of consistency. The Crimson takes a 5.95 ERA into its Ivy League opener Saturday at Princeton, and the staff has walked 66 batters in 112.0 innings of work...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hardball Hits Highs, Lows in Sunshine Trip | 3/31/1998 | See Source »

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