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Bloomberg was in Boston on Monday to receive the Julius B. Richmond Award, the Harvard School of Public Health’s highest honor...
...legal, its members say it is shut out of parliament by being starved of exposure. "In 15 years as head of the party I've had eight minutes on national television," says Chebbi. Government officials dismiss him as little more than a handy antigovernment source for the foreign press. Béchir Tékari, Minister of Justice and Human Rights, complains: "Some people are content to take information from a certain minority of activists...
...It’s often the case that someone gets put off as the sacrificial lamb, when the president needs to show something, that he’s taking action,” she said. When Card was ushered out and replaced by former presidential budget director Joshua B. Bolten, political analysts in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other national publications speculated that the administration might have been trying to signal that it was ready for fresh thinking about divisive issues, such as the conflict in Iraq. “I’m not saying...
...it’s a case where somebody else comes to you and says, ‘Who are you?’—and you don’t know how to answer,” explains Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages Peter B. Machinist. “In other cases it’s a strong family sense, particularly if your family originated from another country and speaks another language...
...Obama to go macho. It was "journalism" at its most useless. The ability to eviscerate your opponents is far less important in a President than the ability to defend yourself. In the nine primary campaigns I've covered, the willingness to attack was a) a sign of desperation and b) a leading indicator of failure, especially if it became the defining characteristic of a candidacy. Four years ago, John Kerry wisely decided not to go negative on Howard Dean and won the nomination when Dean and Dick Gephardt slaughtered each other in a negative-ad shoot-out. Now that Edwards...