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...Bush Administration's attempt to inflate a serious long-term conflict with the forces of radical Islam into a Global War on Terror has been a monumental strategic mistake. But there was little sympathy for figuring out an intelligent way to disengage from Iraq and refocus attention on the broader conflict. My esteemed colleague William Kristol, whose latest column appears on the next page, easily won the crowd with his argument favoring Bush's New Way Forward in Iraq, though not without a few bumps. Kristol, normally an impeccable debater, seemed boggled by this simple question from the audience...
...that all professors who teach classes over a certain size be required to submit themselves for CUE evaluation, Skocpol said. That measure would be one of the few proposals requiring an official vote of the Faculty, according to Skocpol, although she said discussion of the report’s broader findings would most likely be on the docket for one of the Faculty meetings this spring. —Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...
...fault lines today tend to follow sectarian boundaries, with the Shi'ites overwhelmingly following the Hizballah-led opposition, while the majority of Sunnis back the government and the Future Tide movement of Saad Hariri, Rafik's son and political heir. The tension between the two camps also mirrors the broader Shi'ite-Sunni political rift throughout the Arab world that has been rekindled by the Iraq conflict. The chief protagonists in this new "cold war," as some analysts describe it, are Shi'ite Iran and Saudi Arabia, the leader of the Sunni Arab world...
That measure would be one of the few proposals requiring an official vote of the Faculty, according to Skocpol, although she said discussion of the report’s broader findings would most likely be on the docket for one of the Faculty meetings this spring...
...Lebanon, politics are rarely just local, but often mirror the tensions and influences of the broader Middle East. Supporters of the Lebanese government charge that Hizballah is an agent of Iran and Syria, pursuing a dangerous anti-Israel agenda at Lebanon's expense...