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...Senator Biden has warned that the Democrats would consider using their control of the Senate to withhold funding for the missile defense program if it's pursued outside of the framework of arms-control treaties...
...reason that I won't do it is not just because I don't have anything to say that would be any more interesting than what anyone else might say (I don't) or because I take the purist's stand and wish to withhold judgment until the facts are in. It is simply because I have seen enough of sadness in the news to tell me that--unless Chandra turns up alive--this is the story of something very bad happening to a young woman, and, for the moment, I do not know what more there...
...Although Gunderson has completed the requirements for graduation, the Registrar’s Office does not have a date of graduation listed for him. Normally, if criminal proceedings are ongoing against a student when the student is ready to graduate the University will withhold a degree pending the outcome of the charges...
...might be cured if stem-cell research goes forward. Raising the emotional stakes, Smith went on CNN last week and challenged opponents of stem-cell research. "I ask them to go with me to the hospital and visit some of my relatives who are dying of Parkinson's and withhold that care and hope." All three men have long records opposing abortion. These are the kinds of advocates that Lawrence Soler, chairman of the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research, calls "the best ambassadors" because no one can accuse them of being out for political gain...
...beyond military power there was raw economic power, dispensed twice. Milosevic was arrested by the new government on April 1. Why then? Because the U.S. Congress had stipulated that unless Serbia showed cooperation on trying Milosevic by that date, the U.S. would withhold $50 million in reconstruction aid. And then, just last week, Milosevic was spirited out of the country. Why precisely on June 28? Because on the very next day, a donors' conference of Western nations would be meeting to consider the Serbs' request for $1.25 billion in reconstruction aid. They knew they wouldn...