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...Dubai's tourist boom is part of a bold plan to transform the tiny city-state (part of the United Arab Emirates) into a Middle Eastern Singapore?that is, an ultra-efficient regional service center and tourist destination that benefits from the innovative yet unobtrusive hand of a benevolent leader. In Dubai that would be Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the ambitious Crown Prince whose dreams for Dubai leave those of most other gulf princes in the camel age. "They have been bold, and they have been strategic," acknowledges Sheik Mohammed, but he adds, "I have achieved only...
...attempt to explain his turnabouts, no ruminations on the meaning of is. Bush does not utter the phrase, "What I meant to say was ..." The sheer size of his reversals makes them, by some political alchemy, seem like acts of principle by a fearless Executive unafraid of bold actions, including bold retreats...
...allegations, but if the Attorney General goes forward with the indictment in early June, Sharon will probably face enormous pressure from the public and the media to resign. Yet the prospect of being forced from office seems only to have added to Sharon's desire to carry out his bold policy of "disengagement," which calls for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip and perhaps much of the West Bank and the completion of a wall to seal off Israel from Palestinian-dominated territory. If implemented, the plan would result in the first evacuations of settlements by Israel...
...George W. Bush has to prove he?s doing something about the economy too, but the President faces a tougher challenge. He can?t propose bold action either, because Republicans believe the less government gets involved in the economy the better. Bush has already passed his biggest economic proposal - his tax cuts. All he wants to do now is make those tax cuts permanent and try to decrease the cost of doing business by limiting lawsuits and getting rid of ?unnecessary? regulations and reporting requirements. None of this is as exciting as invading another country, but Bush spends...
...gave the recruiters an exemption from the non-discrimination clause. It should not do so again. If the Senate approves the bill and President Bush signs it into law, Harvard must not hesitate to take a moral, if economically painful stance. By rejecting government money, Harvard makes a bold assertion to stand by its principles, and its actions speak far louder than words...