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Although test taking would supposedly be voluntary, Bush hopes that the scores will become a routine part of college and job applications, pressing students and schools to do better.
China's leaders are violently allergic to criticism. But last week they allowed a prominent American to air some irritating thoughts before a domestic public audience for the first time since the 1989 Tiananmen massacre. Visiting former President Jimmy Carter told some 400 people at Beijing's Foreign Affairs College...
American Express has just turned his Gold Card into dross, their posh London hotel is pressing them to settle a steadily mounting bill, and the future of his cocoa futures is dim indeed; the beans are rotting on the docks somewhere in South America, the result of a highly inconvenient...
"I can't imagine anything more pressing right now," said Jack S. Levy '92, vice president of the organization. "One and a half million to 2 million refugees are amassed at the Iraqi border right now. There's complete pandemonium there."
Unhappily, any attempt to spell out such guidelines seems doomed to failure. The old no-intervention-ever principle is immoral; besides, countries disregard it whenever it suits their interest or when they think they can get away with it. Any attempt to codify principles that the U.N. could make a...