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...times, idealism has to take the backseat and allow pragmatism to lead the way. This seems to have informed Tsvangirai’s decision. The MDC and various pro-democracy forces have attempted democratic change for over a decade. Yet these efforts have been brutally thwarted by the Zimbabwean government through the introduction of draconian laws, alleged human-rights abuses, and the skewing of democratic space against the opposition, among other measures. Surely, the world should one day demand accountability for these actions. Pragmatically, that time is not now. Mugabe has no intention of exiting the political picture and forcing...
...cancellation of a helium liquefier—promised as part of the designs for the Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering—has served as an uncomfortable reminder for some professors that research agendas may have to take a backseat to fiscal prudence as University administrators make tough decisions about how to cut budgets...
...this to the growing pile of previously unthinkable fallout from the nation's economic crisis: in 2009, the star-studded parties and corporate blowouts of Super Bowl week might take a backseat to, believe it or not, the actual game...
...qualms about the debt take a backseat to worries about a depression, the scope of the stimulus plan has grown to include everything from expanding Pell grants for college students and health care for the unemployed to investment in renewable energy. Instead of temporary measures meant to prop up the sagging economy over the next two years, much of what has been proposed looks like a laundry list of Obama campaign promises. If the plan is passed, Obama will get, in one fell swoop, a running start on large swaths of his long-term agenda, the ultimate cost of which...
...well as a romantic plot involving Trumper’s second, Florence Vassy, and Sergievsky. Suddenly, chess isn’t so straightforward, and the characters become pawns in a game with mysterious players. Despite the title of the musical, “Chess really ends up taking a backseat to the international intrigue and romance,” Bala says. Amid the romance and competition, political tensions stemming from the Cold War are a constant presence. “Characters are confronted with identity issues, the question of, ‘Can you really be independent in these times...