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...also designed not only to wipe out existing chemical weapons stockpiles, but also to provide a defense scheme for nations that come under chemical attack. The CWC provides carrots for its member nations including "arrangements for speedy assistance in the event of chemical weapons attack and the loosening up of export controls" according to Stephen J. Ledogar, the chief American delegate to the treaty's 1992 drafting. The CWC constitutes a positive effort to unite countries against chemical weapons, not merely a set of negative prohibitions against the possession of chemical weapons...
...conclusion to the first section, Historical Background and Original Intent, admits, "The substance of the Core has changed since its inception [in 1974] as scholarship has changed" (p. 16). Even within a 20-year span, the grand scheme for educating Harvard students has had to accommodate progress in the academy. It is de facto a malleable entity, intended to provide breadth of knowledge and approaches thereto in the face of ever-changing facts, theories and hierarchies of importance...
...this spirit that we should condemn Tisdale's piece, not because it is hostile to technology, nor because it is insensitive to kids. These are minor faults in the scheme of things, worth mentioning only for their widespread incidence. Tisdale should realize that while silence to her means retreat from a world of entertainments, silence to others means a world without any entertainment...
...fund-raising machine whose very creation he opposed. It was Dick Morris, the consultant turned million-dollar author, who pushed Clinton in 1995 to make his comeback with a centrist, ad-driven strategy that would require truckloads of cash. Ickes, almost alone in the West Wing, fought the scheme. Yet when he lost the argument, Ickes executed it to the letter, keeping fund raisers on schedule in memo after memo written in a tiny, pinched scrawl. Clinton has shooed away both men. But while Morris has begun his comeback, Ickes remains in limbo...
...According to the documents, he said the device was made with 5,400 pounds of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, six hundred pounds more than the government's estimate, and that it was mixed with $3000 worth of racing fuel to produce a bomb of exceptional power. McVeigh added that the scheme was financed at least partially by the 1994 robbery of a gun dealer in Arkansas, which was carried out by Terry Nichols. But that wasn't the end of the robberies. Additional statements revealed both McVeigh and Nichols stole explosives from a quarry in Kansas in 1994 to further their...