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...White House still has some muscle with the Israelis, it has less and less with the Palestinians. Washington pressed Abu Ala to appoint an emergency Cabinet that would take control of the Palestinian security apparatus and crack down on Hamas and other radical groups, but Abu Ala backed down under pressure from Arafat and others. Some in the Administration wondered whether the new Prime Minister was already compromised. "The U.S. has made it pretty clear," says this official, "that we won't support someone who is the voice of Yasser Arafat...
...reasoning is faulty, and belies the premise of law in our society that the Constitution does, in fact, trump an appealing, easy solution. The Staff’s position is analogous to arguing that the Sixth Amendment can be overlooked because a state does not have the resources to appoint public defenders for indigent defendants. Regarding affirmative action, an ideologically worthy goal, the point system is scary indeed...
Thus, regardless of site location decisions, the President of Harvard should appoint a high-level task force with a mandate to enhance interdisciplinary work among all graduate schools in the University. The agenda of the task force should include prompt implementation of the following action items for the Law School and the Business School...
...while Governor W. Mitt Romney’s efforts to oust Bulger, however clumsy, seem to have borne fruit, Romney’s real test is whether he cares enough about the university to appoint a replacement with the qualifications and funding support to get UMass back on track...
...course, suffers from the fact that it was handpicked by Bremer, and even then its internal divisions are such that it could only agree to a presidency rotated on a monthly basis, and has yet to appoint a cabinet six weeks after its inception. Until such time as the IGC or some more directly representative Iraqi body offers a viable option for transferring sovereign authority to Iraqis, the price of UN Security Council endorsement of an international security force is likely to be putting the UN in charge of the political transition process - as is the case in Afghanistan...