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...front page on Feb. 10 detailed Professor Judith L. Ryan’s intention to place a motion of no confidence in Summers on the agenda of an upcoming faculty meeting; a Feb. 13 editorial urged the Faculty to “end its groundless campaign to oust the president...
...essay in TIME last week, when he wrote that Rumsfeld marginalized former Army General Eric Shinseki after the Chief of Staff suggested in a hearing before Congress that much larger forces would be needed following the invasion. "They only need the military advice when it satisfies their agenda," said Major General John Riggs, who spoke out on National Public Radio last Thursday...
...sold 250,000 copies, many on Smiley's barnstorming tour of African-American congregations around the U.S. Each revival-like meeting has drawn hundreds--in some cities, thousands--with many in the audience buying armloads of books to give to friends and relatives. The book is a nonpartisan agenda for black progress. Its prescriptions range from the individual-- "Invest in a home computer"--to the societal--"Strengthen the Voting Rights Act." The Covenant's success may have surprised the publishing world but not Smiley, who says, "There is a hunger and a thirst on the part of black people...
That caution seems fitting for a relationship that while relatively warm, is being tested by a multitude of tricky issues. Atop Bush's agenda: the swelling U.S. trade deficit with China, which is more than $200 billion a year. Bush is expected to prod Hu to allow China's currency to rise, making U.S. goods cheaper, imports from China more expensive and the trade imbalance less lopsided...
...modest. His mother fled the island to work as a seamstress in a New York City garment factory, which afforded Leonel some formative years in New York City's Upper West Side. To many, Fernández seems more fixated on consolidating power than on advancing his government's ambitious agenda. His government, for example, is spending almost as much building a subway line--$700 million--as it does on education and health together. And despite his rhetorical intolerance of corruption, Fernández hasn't seriously challenged the country's long-standing culture of impunity enjoyed by thieving élites. "Leonel...