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...members of the Coalition Against Sexual Violence (CASV), we are encouraged that OCR’s investigation pushed Harvard to backtrack from and clarify its policy. We hope that Harvard’s successive revisions from requiring “sufficient independent corroboration” to “corroborating information” to “supporting information” represent more than semantic attempts at appeasement. Harvard’s note on the Ad Board’s website that “supporting information” can be nearly anything, including evidence of having told just...
...blandishments about technology and the future. In his first few months in office he sent conflicting foreign-policy signals, telegraphing an isolationist message at an April conference in Bangkok where he said Thailand would reduce dependence on exports and look inward to solve its economic woes; then seeming to backtrack at the May FORTUNE Global Forum in Hong Kong where he pledged to keep Thailand's economy open. Now he insists he has always been a free trader, but that he wants to promote policies that encourage efficient deployment of domestic capital, to close what he sees...
...hours later, in a CNN interview, Bush sought to backtrack, claiming that what he was committed to was to "help Taiwan defend herself" and that all he was doing was voicing support for America's traditional one-China policy and the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act?which says only that an attack on Taiwan would be of "grave concern" to the U.S. As Bush's words ricocheted around Washington, Secretary of State Colin Powell assured the worried Biden in a phone call that there had been no shift, and a State Department spokesman insisted: "Our policy hasn't changed today...
...hours later, in a CNN interview, Bush sought to backtrack, claiming that what he was committed to was to "help Taiwan defend herself" and that all he was doing was voicing support for America's traditional one-China policy and the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act--which says only that an attack on Taiwan would be of "grave concern" to the U.S. As Bush's words ricocheted around town, Secretary of State Colin Powell assured the worried Biden in a phone call that there had been no shift, and a State spokesman insisted, "Our policy hasn't changed today; it didn...
...Wednesday that Beijing needs to understand that the U.S. would "do whatever it takes" to defend Taiwan. That was a dramatic break with Washington's traditional ambiguity on the question, designed in part to avoid emboldening Taiwanese leaders to declare independence. In a subsequent CNN interview, Bush appeared to backtrack, and emphasized Washington's continued opposition to Taiwan's independence and its belief in a "One China" policy. TIME State Department correspondent Jay Branegan explains the concerns of China watchers...