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...ever. "The most fundamental importance of intelligence is to warn--specifically, to warn against surprise attack," says consultant William DeGenaro, a veteran of government intelligence and a former director of business research and analysis at 3M. "Take the same process and substitute another threat--a blindsiding alliance, a technology shift. It's all the same...
...better be. It will be a daunting task to shift public opinion, in Britain and elsewhere, to agree that Saddam's pursuit of wmds justifies war in the near future. After all, ask critics, hasn't he been seeking them for two decades? Why should we fight now? Is it just a desire by George Bush to finish what his daddy failed to, and by Blair to bear any burden necessary to snuggle with Uncle Sam? If Saddam does get these weapons, won't he be deterred from using them by fear of retaliation that would annihilate his country? Officials...
...Secret Lives of Girls, Sharon Lamb urges her readers to reevaluate what they consider to be “normal.” In Lamb’s view, most Americans need to shift from thinking that a young girl’s sexual and aggressive expressions are “bad” to categorizing such behavior as, simply, what all girls do. Lamb claims that a large percentage of young girls in America feel that they are leading double lives, pretending to be sweet and innocent while secretly engaging in sexual play and aggressive acts that are traditionally...
This isn’t an inherently bad idea. But it means that the president and the council have fundamentally changed the nature of Springfest. The event has come a long way since my senior year of high school (the last time alcohol was permitted). With this shift, it’s not really a student-focused event any more. That might not be such a big deal, if someone had taken the trouble to really make clear what students stand to gain from Summers co-sponsoring the event in the first place...
...will this change the political landscape? Power will shift from the national to state parties, for one thing, notes TIME congressional correspondent Douglas Waller. Television will become less important as the floods of unregulated funds dry up. And advocacy groups like the National Rifle Association and the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League will see their influence increase...