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...military is unsuited to supervise the rabid, byzantine domestic politics of the country. A Six-Plus-Two agreement that tacitly accepts the former and jointly requests the U.N. to supervise the latter may not be a bad idea. For one thing, the support of the neighborhood would limit the demands that the French and Russians might make. (An immediate Six-Plus-Two request to lift the U.N. economic sanctions against Iraq and start the oil flowing would certainly be harder to reject than a U.S.-British resolution...
Veron also cleared up a common misconception about the current French policy, explaining that the 35 hours is not an absolute limit, but rather the point at which overtime pay starts...
...1970s, when lead was taken out of gasoline, the median blood-lead levels in children have dropped from 15 mcg to 2 mcg per deciliter, but the CDC estimates that there are still more than 450,000 kids in the U.S. with blood-lead levels above its recommended limit. One of the most dangerous sources: the lead-based paints that still coat the walls of some 38 million homes, most built before 1960. --By Sora Song
...least two debates this coming week over controversial nominees to the lower courts will preview what's to come. A full Senate vote on the nomination of Jeffrey Sutton - whose states' rights advocacy has helped limit the scope of disability, age and race discrimination statutes - to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals is expected Tuesday. Then Thursday, the Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on Carolyn Kuhl, whom George Bush wants to seat on the appellate court in California. As a Reagan administration lawyer, Kuhl argued hard for tax-exempt status for the racially discriminatory Bob Jones University...
...credible security organization outside of Arafat's control, and his independence at the head of a consolidated Palestinian security service - as well as his good standing in Washington - make Dahlan a threatening figure to the PLO chairman. Palestinian reformists and Western backers of the road map want to limit Arafat's personal power and create a more collective leadership among the Palestinians. But Arafat is not letting go: He insists on maintaining power of veto over all of Abu Mazen's decisions, which the prime minister-designate has refused to grant...