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...mansion on the outskirts of Warsaw she and her huSBand have restored. "This kind of thing can destroy a person." "This kind of thing" has been happening across the former Soviet bloc as police archives, sealed since the end of communism, are gradually revealed to the public. The political fallout is intense. Politicians are seizing on the information to discredit foes. Some question the very authenticity of the files, but a growing number of people see the opening of the secret-police archives as an overdue step towards normalcy after a half-century of totalitarian rule. The disclosures...
Both experts point out that you can get only so far by cramming good nutrition before a test. Good eating habits, like good study habits, are a long-term investment. "The greatest possible fallout of this," muses Katz, "is that kids might think, Jeez, if I have to worry about what I eat to maximize my performance on the SAT, maybe I need to pay a little bit more attention to what I eat all the time...
Most of the last thirty minutes of yesterday’s discussion concerned the fallout from Summers’ January remarks on differences in “intrinsic aptitude” in science between men and women, for which he has since apologized...
...promised repeatedly over the decades, as a signatory to global agreements like the Monterrey Consensus of 2002, to give a much larger proportion of its annual output, specifically up to 0.7% of GNP, to official development assistance. The U.S.'s failure to follow through has no political fallout domestically, of course, because not one in a million U.S. citizens even knows of statements like the Monterrey Consensus. But we should not underestimate the salience that it has abroad. Spin as we might in the U.S. about our generosity, the poor countries are fully aware of what we are not doing...
...forum engendered a lively discussion of the fallout from the president’s gaffe, including the withering response from national media and some members of the Harvard Faculty...