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...little choice. "It is my judgment that in the time remaining to us, we cannot complete a competition that would be viewed as fair and competitive in this highly charged environment," Gates told the House Armed Services Committee Wednesday. "I believe that the resulting cooling-off period will allow the next Administration to review objectively the military requirements and craft a new acquisition strategy" for future tankers...
...clear that [it] cannot wait for Pakistan to [take decisive action] and will have to treat Pakistani territory as a combat zone if Pakistan does not act," wrote military scholar Anthony Cordesman of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies last month. "Pakistan cannot both claim sovereignty and allow hostile non-state actors to attack Afghanistan [and] U.S. and NATO/ISAF forces [there] from its soil...
...cellular processes crucial to human health and disease. In light of its early and unchallenged success, the Broad Institute will now transition to a permanent non-profit organization, with both Harvard and MIT continuing to help govern it. Lander said that the nature of a permanent endowment will allow for tackling long-term problems with “10-year horizons or longer.” “This is about an expansion in time,” Lander said. “The goal is to put this endowment away for a period of years so when...
...wealthiest universities, including a $22-milion expansion at Harvard, as “self-correcting.” Harvard and other schools with billion-dollar endowments have fought efforts to legislate payout rates, saying that donor restrictions and inconsistent returns require more flexibility than a mandate would allow. “We must balance our use of its income to support the current generation against our duty to preserve its purchasing power for future generations,” University President Drew G. Faust said in her Commencement address in June. “We cannot treat our endowment...
...unclear what serious alternatives exist to the kind of painful mass evacuations Louisiana officials ordered last week. A politically tricky situation remains: If state and local officials fail to move residents out of flood-prone areas, they risk charges of incompetence, or worse. But their hesitance after Gustav to allow residents to quickly return to areas that lacked basic services like electricity, grocery stores and gas stations brought the same accusations. In addition, their heightened rhetoric as Gustav approached - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin at one point said it could be "the storm of the century" - only hurts their credibility...