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...hard to avoid the conclusion: in terms of American public opinion, political support in Britain and the Arab states, facilitating military action, and the cost of war and reconstruction, securing a second Security Council resolution would do the U.S. a lot of good. Will such a resolution be passed? While Bush headed off to his ranch in Texas last weekend, the answer to that question was left with a man whose language epitomizes those very shades of gray that Bush seems to hate. "I'm not rushing to conclusions," says Blix; "I have to be a lawyer ... Monitoring requires patience...
...first option, the proportionality test, that gets Title IX critics in a lather. Many schools believe that this is the only sure way to avoid accusations of noncompliance, since progress can be measured in hard numbers. But detractors say it leads to dismantling men's teams while adding women's as a school attempts to meet its goals. UCLA and the University of Miami have eliminated their men's swim teams, even though both regularly sent competitors to the Olympics. In 1997, Boston University dismantled its football program, which had been around for 91 years, and in 1999, Providence College...
...Vardalos has been frantic, on set until 11 every night, she says, trying to make the scripts less sitcomish. "Our mandate in the writers' room is small stories," she says, forcing the writers to avoid the conflicts that organically come from the cultural dissonance she wrote into the film. "What I want is no jokes. I don't want lines like 'Good morning, honey.' 'Not in that shirt it's not!'" The show, however, is still very much a sitcom, with a lot of jokes. At a rehearsal for an upcoming episode, Andrea Martin as Aunt Voula walks...
...fear is that Saddam could easily hide in a country that was all but built for his personal protection. Or he could slip through Iraq's porous borders with Syria, Iran or Jordan. Sad-dam has billions stashed away to finance a life in exile. To avoid this, the White House appears to be counting on the newly liberated Iraqis to turn him in. Sources tell TIME that the U.S. armed forces have developed pamphlets to be dropped over Iraq if a war begins, warning citizens not to let Saddam escape. "We're counting on the Ceausescu method," says...
...action is cause for great sadness, as is any violence (“gendered” or not), undergraduate pranks often depend as much on the penile as the puerile. If the representation of an erect phallus moves her to violence, perhaps the penis police should try to avoid museums and sculpture gardens. Since ice is, by definition, a temporary medium, the destroyer of the penis might have restrained herself and let nature take her course, which inevitably takes care of the “problem.” With the world in its current state, the only possible reaction...