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Critics find the strategy puzzling, especially since the MIA issue is increasingly seen as a phantasm. Allegations that the Vietnamese withhold data have been all but discredited by a wave of assistance from Hanoi. Of the remaining 2,211 mias, the number who were last seen alive but have never been accounted for has dwindled from 196 to 55, and progress has been made in reducing the number of other outstanding priority cases. And although Vietnam has been deceitful in the past, U.S. officials have applauded its cooperation in the past year. "What can we be cheated on at this...
...believe, given what information has been made, public, that Grant's decision to withhold such vulnerable information was not only justified by available legal guidelines, but also may have reflected good judgment. Perhaps Harvard has more pertinent information bearing on its ultimate decision; in that case, I wish Harvard would not persist in withholding information from a concerned public. As the parties at Harvard involved in this matter consider which facts to disclose and which to keep private, perhaps they may discover some empathy for the position of Grant...
...uncharacteristically, the federal government adopted a flawed policy. In 1984, a national minimum drinking age was indirectly set by Congress at 21 by threatening the states. If that restriction on drinking did not become law, the U.S. would withhold highway construction and maintenance funding: five percent the first year, 10 percent each year afterward. Thus the current drinking age was induced, rather than ordered upon states. Not surprisingly, all 50 states have a drinking age of 21. Money talks...
Apple Computer has accused top Microsoft executives of using blackmail tactics to try to force Apple to drop its copyright suit against Microsoft and to halt the development of competitive software. Threats to withhold the pre-release version of their new operating system, Windows 95, including two made by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates personally, were detailed in a Feb. 13 letter written by Apple chief executive Michael Spindler to U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin, who was reviewing Microsoft's antitrust settlement. The next day, Sporkin rejected the settlement, though he wrote that Apple's comments were not considered...
...poll of second-year students conducted by the Harbus revealed an overwhelming proportion endorsing smaller sections, an increased use of technology, tighter integration of courses, trimesters and other main features of the drafted proposals. Most, however, withhold endorsement of a plan to accept younger applicants...