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...face growing pressure from liberal supporters to push for the Justice Department's prosecution of the officers on civil rights charges. Giuliani contended that the case did not warrant such a trial, and some observers said the verdict got Giuliani out of a tight spot, since now he can defend the entire jury system instead of just the police...
...administrators at Harvard's Division of Continuing Education--which administers the Summer School program--defend the rough treatment...
...President's dilemma, of course, is the one inherited by every tenant of the Oval Office since Nixon - how to manage a "One China" policy that recognizes Beijing as the government of a single Chinese sovereign entity that includes Taiwan, while at the same time committing Washington to defend Taiwan against any aggression by that same government. But with tensions raised by election-season rhetoric both in Taiwan and the U.S., Taipei's military shopping list leaves Washington facing the unhappy choice of provoking a backlash either from Beijing or from Taiwan's vocal supporters on Capitol Hill...
...reportedly against making a sale that would further complicate Washington's most troubled relationship, the Times reports that a number of top Pentagon officials favor beefing up Taiwan's defenses. The military logic is plain to see: The current policy requires that U.S. forces be rapidly deployed to defend Taiwan from any threat, as occurred in 1996 when President Clinton ordered a U.S. Navy battle group into the Taiwan Strait after China had fired ballistic missiles toward the island. Although that deployment was enough to force Beijing to back away from the threat of force, there might be legitimate concerns...
...Indians--themselves an endangered group--had ravaged the turtle population. But Pritchard helped save both turtles and tribe: he has lobbied Guyana and private sources for grants that have weaned the Arawaks off turtle meat and into chicken farming. And he hires Arawaks to tag turtles for research and defend nesting grounds. The killing has largely stopped, he says, because turtle protection is now "a family discipline thing" among Arawaks, "rather than an outsider laying down...