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With housing authority more firmly centralized in Jewett's office, the institutional mechanism has come more in line with what he has wanted for several years. The immediate placement of transfer students weakens the element of housing choice even further. And the withering away of house vitality as a result of DeWolfe makes a proposal for change seem more attractive to masters and largely irrelevant to more students...
...weeks ago, however, the White House informed Congress of its plans to sell advanced weapons worth $1.6 billion to Egypt, including 46 F-16 warplanes and 80 air-to-ground missiles. The Administration describes the sale as the final part of a 10-year series that was an element of the deal in which Egypt agreed to the 1978 Camp David peace accords. The White House has also submitted a classified report informing Congress that it is considering more than $18 billion in new military sales to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt, Israel and Turkey. Saudi Arabia...
...There is an element of who you know," Arrowsmith added. "[The selection process] depends on who you're friends with to a small extent but to a larger degree on how you play...
...latter issue most unfairly. To imply that the committee has tried deliberately to keep out men is a blatant misrepresentation of the truth. To the contrary, it is something that the committee has tried to make up for--through its open forum last month, for example--without sacrificing the element of intimacy--not "secrecy"--that is essential to its mission of educating the administration about date rape...
...what if Saddam invented some pretext to stop or reverse the withdrawal? Having agreed to a cease-fire, would the allies have to go back to the U.N. Security Council for fresh authority to attack the Iraqi troops, a move subject to Soviet or Chinese veto? The common element in all these suspicions is that, as a senior White House official put it, "nobody believes anything he ((Saddam)) says...