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Palestinian financial reformers have an advantage that political progressives lack: a population that is sick of corruption and can't blame it on outsiders. Palestinians often assign their lack of progress toward an independent state to Israeli and American obstinacy, but malfeasance is an all-Palestinian issue, one on which there is a broad popular demand for change. That has given Fayyad, a former official of the International Monetary Fund with a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas, the confidence to order the scrubbing of the Authority's books. Says Karim Nashashibi, the IMF's representative...
...technique in academic statistics known as Markovian modeling, which he says makes it qualitatively different from any statistic a casual fan would be familiar with. RPG, Morris says, takes much of the interpretation out of statistics (different fans may value on-base percentage or RBI differently, and sabermetricians frequently assign debatable weights to statistics such as stolen bases) and says with statistical certainty how many runs per game nine of a given player would produce on average. Adjusting for annual fluctuations, RPG predicts how many runs teams actually score to a very high degree...
...departments should assign each incoming sophomore an individual advisor—not someone who just lives in the House, but a faculty member or graduate student who is intending to be at Harvard for the next three years, and who shares an academic or career interest with the student beyond merely the concentration. These academic advisors should be required to meet with the advisees at least once a year; they should be the people signing students’ study cards, and at the same time discussing long-term plans to help students take advantage of the best options concentrations have...
...Gulf War, notes U.S. Central Command chief Tommy Franks, "we used 10 airframes to a target. Now we assign two targets to an aircraft." The improved efficiency would probably make a new air war in Iraq shorter than the Gulf War's 38 days. Because the JDAM could so effectively cripple Iraq's military, senior Pentagon officials believe the U.S. could topple Saddam with a maximum of 250,000 troops, less than half the number it massed to drive his forces from Kuwait in 1991. The weapon's precision should minimize damage to civilian structures, making post-Saddam Iraq easier...
Therefore, the only sane conclusion is that Bush would only resort to war if the cost of inaction becomes greater. It is simply cynical to assign any other motives to the president on this issue. The Commander-in-Chief gig is not one that anybody takes lightly, and, tempting as it may be, we cannot pretend Bush is acting out of greed for oil or some weird complex to avenge his father. To do so is both ignorant and dangerous...