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...participating in U.S.-brokered peace talks with Israel over the fate of the Golan Heights; Iraq was still ruled by Saddam Hussein's tyranny, which also functioned to limit Iran's regional ambitions; and the Oslo peace process offered Israel and the Palestinians the prospect of peace. Today dialogue amongst the various parties is rare, even as the prospects for U.S. success on key issues such as stabilizing Iraq, fighting al-Qaeda and preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons may hinge in no small part on its ability to stop the Israel-Hizballah crisis from spinning out of control...
...debates in both the House and Senate this week over Iraq policy were in many ways simply political grandstanding. In the Senate, while Democrats were debating amongst themselves a proposal that would call for some kind of graduated troop withdrawal, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, the No. 2 leader of the Senate Republicans, rushed a proposal to the floor calling for the withdrawal of troops by the end of the year, hoping to expose the split among Democrats. Only six Democrats voted for the provision. The House, meanwhile, spent more than 13 hours debating a non-binding resolution, framed...
...joked that he has “secretly been living amongst you”—in dining halls, in classes, and “sleeping with your women...
...year, and yet the Faculty has failed to reconsider its policy on lecturers. Students should not have to study under inferior instruction simply because the Faculty wants to maintain the preeminence of tenured professors.Similarly unreasonable was the Faculty’s treatment of the CUE survey system, which is amongst the few measures taken to hold professors accountable as effective teachers. Amazingly, professors are not required to distribute CUE surveys to their students, nor are they required to allow the results of those surveys to be published in the following year’s CUE Guide. Even more amazingly...
...before the Court. Tyler Professor in Constitutional Law Richard H. Fallon said that in recent years “it had been notorious that before a lawyer could get a few sentences out, the justices would immediately ask questions and use the lawyer as a conduit to have arguments amongst themselves as they asked rhetorical questions.” Under Roberts, however, Fallon said that the general perception is that “the questioning in oral argument is more restrained and civil, and it is easier for lawyers to get out their arguments.”Second, Roberts seems...