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...advice. They don't ask for it. I don't give it. I used to, but I've learned how to keep quiet. Nobody cares. If someone asks me a question, I'll answer it, but aside from that, I think that people are most interested in getting their agenda out into the world. Not listening to other people...
...Muslim world. Coming at a time of dwindling American influence in Iraq and throughout the Middle East, Ahmadinejad's leadership is an emblem of a resurgent Iran that is assuming a role as a major regional power. Until now, his assertiveness has enabled him to set the agenda within a political system where foreign policy had been mainly in the hands of Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei and his Supreme National Security Council. When council head Ali Larijani recently seemed to indicate a willingness to freeze uranium enrichment in negotiations with European countries, Ahmadinejad quickly shot him down, publicly declaring...
...Iraq, which Syria opposed, the Bush Administration has been looking for ways to squeeze the government in Damascus," notes Joshua Landis, a Syria expert who is co-director of the Center for Peace Studies at the University of Oklahoma. "Syria has appeared to be next on the Administration's agenda to reform the greater Middle East." Landis adds: "This is apparently an effort to gin up the Syrian opposition under the rubric of 'democracy promotion' and 'election monitoring,' but it's really just an attempt to pressure the Syrian government" into doing what the U.S. wants. That would include blocking...
...dozen other major donors who spoke to The Crimson confirmed Malkin’s remarks. They’ve been giving to Harvard because they agree with the Summers agenda. And regardless of who the next president is, they want that agenda to move forward...
...There was a quite broad consensus that in many ways the agenda that President Summers had set had really become the University’s agenda,” Bartels says...