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RICHARD HAASS After three years, my answer would be no, although any judgment at this point is necessarily an interim one. The war has absorbed a tremendous amount of U.S. military capacity, the result being that the U.S. has far less spare or available capacity to use in the active sense or to exploit in the diplomatic sense. It has weakened our position against both North Korea and Iran. It has exacerbated U.S. fiscal problems. The war has also contributed to the world's alienation from the U.S. and made it more difficult to galvanize international support for U.S. policy...
...Numbers $50 million Minimum amount in foreign aid expected to be withheld by Western donors from the new Hamas-led Palestinian Authority 50% increase in the proportion of Palestinians living below the poverty line next year if aid is withheld, according to the World Bank...
...rather than a lethal injection, for Moussaoui. Yet, it will arrive due to less-than-fortunate circumstances. This episode reveals an impermissible misconduct from the executive branch and its prosecuting arm. True, it is no easy task to prosecute immensely complex cases against terrorist suspects. But considering the vast amount of resources required to build and prosecute a case like Moussaoui’s, the Department of Justice must be much more careful with its own and other lawyers assisting in the prosecution. According to Brinkema’s ruling, Martin sent e-mails to the seven aviation officials containing...
...make sure your hat is on straight. Your new job places you in the top ranks of the Vatican hierarchy. Does the responsibility of your new office feel overwhelming? I can say that I'm past the deer-in-the-headlights phase. The biggest challenge now is the amount of reading - not only of new material, but rereading documents and decisions taken by the Congregation. how do you respond to the spread of violence in the name of another world religion, Islam? If a religious leader is preaching violence, he has mistaken his religion. Religion is about our vision...
...bigger worry with those sites isn't so much the privacy or security issues, though those are real enough. It's the sheer amount of screen-sucking time they consume in lives that are already overscheduled. Being a teenager is one enormous exercise in time management. Watching my kids try to juggle school, homework, sports, music lessons and sleep, I sometimes think my life is easier than theirs. That's partly because I have some tools they lack, but it's also because I think I know an abyss when I see one. Facebook is one giant time vortex...