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...earlier days the IEM, modeled after a similar program at the Business School, focused discussions on the campus issues of the time, such as, Levine suggests, "how to respond to campus rioting." True to its Business School roots, the IEM utilized the case-study method which continues to dominate the PPE summer programs today...
Jerusalem cited ample military reasons for wanting Obeid out of action, claiming he has instigated dozens of attacks against Israel and the so-called security zone it maintains in Lebanon. But kidnaping is not the usual method of the Israelis. They may actually have wanted to acquire bait for a hostage swap. Two affiliate groups of Hizballah are believed to be holding three Israeli prisoners of war captured in 1986, two of them soldiers taken in the security zone and the third an air force navigator. Americans wonder if U.S. Lieut. Colonel William Higgins, head of the United Nations peacekeeping...
...more complex. It will only reduce the numbers of various missiles, and inspectors will have to determine how many small cruise missiles are carried aboard bombers and possibly even submarines. Differentiation must be made between nuclear-tipped and conventionally armed cruise missiles, even if they look alike. A method will have to be found to keep track of mobile missiles. With all that, the supreme challenge will be how to prevent new production of banned weapons at secret locations...
Many conservationists are worried that Japan will try to hide its financing of projects that damage the environment. One method would be to make unrestricted loans to foreign banks. The banks could then lend money to controversial projects, but Japan would not be blamed. One fear is that Japan will use such "two-step" loans to fund a major road that would open up the western Amazon to logging. Says Alex Hittle, international coordinator of | Friends of the Earth, U.S.: "It's in general loans that disturbing things might be lurking...
...despair about coming to Harvard, armchair QB. If watching or competing in athletics is your favorite method of "getting away from it all," be prepared to get away...