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...team of researchers are creating an index to evaluate former heads of state from 48 sub-Saharan African countries. That index will quantify a candidate’s efforts on providing security, rule of law, economic opportunity, political freedom, educational services, health services, infrastructure development, and empowerment of civil society, Rotberg said. “It will almost certainly raise the thinking in African heads of state about how best to leave office, which presumably helps limit the extent of corruption,” Rotberg said. “The prize permits them to be judged by opinion, both...
...scrutiny creates a safe haven for ne’er-do-wells and that those who are doing nothing wrong have nothing to fear. But it strikes me as absurd, and even somewhat insulting to the investigative talents of FBI agents, to suggest that the government needs to compromise civil rights in order to catch the terrorists in our midst...
...Harvard Salient, were Ryan A. Delany ’09 and Colin J. Motley ’10. Delany, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps for four years after high school, argued that “the only thing preventing [Iraq] from going into all-out civil war are the coalition troops.” He added that he wouldn’t “support any U.S. war blindly.” Citing polls from various Web sites, Smith responded that most Iraqis are dissatisfied with the U.S. occupation and called for the United States...
...heard the same thing from a half dozen other Gulf Arab contacts I talked to the same day. Sure, they're all unhappy about Iraq. But what really concerns them is what happens when the U.S. packs up and leaves. The most likely scenario is an out-and-out civil war, Sunni against Shi'a, with Iran and Saudi Arabia eventually sucked in. And, by the way, can the United States stop Iran from occupying Iraq...
...chairman of the Iraq Study Group. Most Gulf Arabs-Sunnis, to be sure-look at Baker as a friend. Baker was the brains behind the U.N.-sanctioned coalition that drove Saddam out of Kuwait. Baker had the sense to leave Saddam in power, knowing full well the alternative was civil war. The Iraq policy Baker put in place in 1992 gave the Gulf eleven years of peace...