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Upon entering office, the Clinton team boldly touted its policy of "dual containment" of Iraq and Iran. Five years later, that policy is in dual shambles. The containment of Iraq has collapsed: the coalition dead, the inspections stopped, the embargo porous and teetering. And Iran? Even as it tests an 800-mile-range missile, even as it rushes to build nuclear weapons, the new party line enunciated by Albright is detente, bringing down "the wall of mistrust" between the two countries...
Executive Director of the Harvard AlumniAssociation (HAA) John P. Reardon Jr. '60, whooversees the Harvard clubs, says that most clubsdon't have similar dual structures but that it'snot unusual or even suspicious. The Harvard Clubof New York, for instance, has a similar structuremainly for tax purposes, Reardon said...
Gelb was the metropolitan editor at The New York Times in 1968 when Lukas won a Pulitzer Prize for his writing on the murder of Linda Fitzpatrick, a young, upper-class woman from Conn. who began a dual life amidst New York City's drug culture...
...China? The simple answer is there is no simple answer, just ambiguous facts. Like dual-use exports for civilian or military purpose, China's behavior can be benign or malign, better or not good enough. There's plenty to worry about if you're worried about China...
...controversy does open to fresh scrutiny a very difficult issue: To what extent do all U.S. sales of dual-use technology (items for legitimate civilian purposes that can also be turned to military use) help China modernize its military and improve its nuclear and missile arsenal? The question is hardly new, and scientists have been arguing back and forth for years whether China should be allowed to buy a whole array of items, from supercomputers and centrifuges to clean rooms and ground-positioning systems. "They don't just want our hardware," says Henry Sokolski, a former Bush proliferation specialist. "They...