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...venture for more than a decade. The project was unsafe, never made economic or technical sense and set a bizarre nonproliferation precedent?it began construction of a reactor that could make many bombs' worth of plutonium while suspending routine international inspections of North Korea's nuclear activities designed to prevent proliferation. Pyongyang, moreover, blew the deal apart late in 2002 when it revealed it was building a covert uranium enrichment plant. For these reasons, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced in July that the reactor project would "cease to exist...
Waxman’s brief acknowledges that the federal government has a “perhaps compelling interest” in ensuring that its funds are not used to support racial or sex discrimination. But, according to the brief, the Solomon Amendment is not needed to prevent federal funds from going to support “some wrongful conduct...
...reaction the Bush administration provided $5.5 million “in technical assistance and grants” to affected nations throughout Southeast Asia throughout the past year. On May 11, 2005 an emergency appropriations bill, signed by Bush, suitably gave a further $25 million to prevent and control the spread of the disease...
...dozen law schools that calls itself the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), the professors contended that the government has unlawfully exceeded the limits of the Solomon Amendment—a statute initially passed in 1994 that permits the Pentagon to block federal funding to universities that prevent military recruiting on campus...
Harvard lost one of its best players, Katie Loncke, in addition to two of last year’s seniors. Its performance this weekend, however, especially yesterday, shows that it won’t let these losses prevent it from having a successful year...