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...camps on the Iraqi-Turkish border. The U.S. has been urging Turkey to assimilate these refugees, but Turkey, which has 8 million Kurds (out of a total population of 57 million), is reluctant to take in more. A Kurdish separatist movement is simmering in Turkey, and the border camps contain experienced fighters. To demonstrate its concern -- and to set an example -- Washington plans to allow about 1,500 Kurds into the U.S., probably beginning in January, with more to follow...
Paradoxically, polls show that concern about the environment is much higher now than a year ago. But the defeats contain some valuable lessons for environmentalists. Among them: 1) proposals should be simple and well focused, 2) plans that shift power from localities to state capitals are a hard sell, and 3) a recession is a bad time to ask for money. The very strategy of favoring ballot proposals over the horse trading of legislation may also bear re-examining. "I don't predict the beginning of some trend that makes environmental initiatives more difficult to achieve," insists Jim Maddy, executive...
...fact, the rationale for war goes beyond oil. The showdown with Saddam is a test case of whether the international community can contain unprovoked aggression in the post-cold war world. If the Iraqi dictator gets away with his seizure of Kuwait, the precedent will be set for other aggressions and other wars, some of them potentially nuclear, started by any nation that wants to alter the map of the world by force. American public opinion so far seems to understand this intuitively, but without much help from the President. He will have to do better than that...
While we should question Sneider's ethics, we should not ignore his arguments. Though they contain statements about the rally that are disputed by the New York Times and by people who did not attend, his arguments deserve a response...
Nonetheless, complaints abound. Critics of standardized testing have long charged that the SATs contain built-in cultural and class biases, which put women and minorities at a disadvantage. They claim that the multiple-choice questions do not effectively gauge students' critical thinking skills or their future potential...