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...Gore didn't attend.) They cite October as a good time for him to get in, since that's when the Nobel Committee announces its Peace Prize. Finally, they point to The Assault on Reason, the sort of book that could be a talisman of intent, since it takes aim at George W. Bush from multiple directions, diagnoses what's wrong with our democracy and offers ideas for curing it. Why else would you write a book like that, they say, if you weren't laying down a marker...
...Interior Ministry rejects those numbers. "I doubt the scientific rigor of such an alarming rate," Fabricio Perez, general director for custody and rehabilitation at the ministry, told TIME. His colleague, deputy interior minister Ricardo Jimenez Dan, took aim at the director of the NGO, Humberto Prado, a former prison director under a previous government. "It would seem that the drama that our jails are living is the only way of life and sustenance that he has," the deputy minister said...
...York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg really thinking of running for President next year as a self-financed independent? Or is he lowering his sights, as one Big Apple tabloid reported last week, and planning to take aim at the Albany statehouse in 2010 instead...
...we’re hoping [the funding] will help provide some support for junior faculty...and encourage them to make Massachusetts their home.” A portion of the $1.25 billion will also go to create “Life Science Innovation Centers” aimed at speeding the transfer of technology from labs to the market. Harvard officials did not know where those centers would be located, but Brock Reeve, HSCI’s executive director, said Patrick’s commitment to geographic diversity would likely mean that planners would have to reconcile this aim with...
...Gordon Brown: That's not my aim, actually. You cannot do what people assume politics was about in the old days; you cannot just pull levers and expect things to happen. I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support...