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...trouble for Poland is that Radio Maryja's excesses are a disturbing straw in the wind. The country's new government is using the broadcaster as its outlet of choice in a campaign to "purify" Poland, an effort that has included attacks on critical journalists, on an "alcoholic" civil service, on the former communist "establishment" and on the central bank. This fragrant brew of right-wing populist causes is likely to become more pungent this week, when talks to form a coalition government could result in an important post - Deputy Prime Minister - for Andrzej Lepper. Leader of the Self-Defense...
...they'd soon run out of food to hand out to even more anxious refugees. Walid Safiz, a 28-year-old vendor selling sundries at the Friday market in Gaza City, said business was down 80% because, without international funding, the bankrupt government can't pay some 160,000 civil servants. "If they don't get salaries, they don't buy anything," he observes. And while Hamas continues to observe a cease-fire, gunmen of the secular al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - the military wing of the deposed Fatah party - vowed last week to continue cross-border attacks. A member...
...approach in dealing with residents. “You’ve gotta be honest with them,” Gordon says. “When people are too cute, too flashy, they see through it immediately.” Fred Moavenzadeh, a professor of systems engineering and civil and environmental engineering at M.I.T., characterizes Gordon as a “people person.”“People do not get suspicious of him or frightened of him or get doubtful of his sincerity,” he says.Since Harvard has had a contentious history with Cambridge, avoiding...
...presence is impossible until a credible Iraqi government proves it can defend itself against an insurgency that is likely to persist for years. The range of plausible scenarios if the U.S. were to pull out includes an Islamic state that provides sanctuary to terrorists like al-Zarqawi and a civil war that could draw in neighboring countries like Syria and Iran. "We cannot walk away from this one," says retired Marine Corps General Anthony Zinni, a former head of U.S. forces in the Middle East and a leading critic of the Administration's handling of Iraq. "It would...
...surprised” if the office saw turnover after his departure. Is Summers paying attention to the search for his successor? “Not very closely,” he said. Summers—whose tenure is set to be the shortest of any Harvard president since the Civil War—said he is most proud of his efforts to revamp undergraduate education, boost science and interdisciplinary initiatives, and expand financial aid to more students. But he was reluctant to predict his legacy as Harvard’s 27th president. “I think it?...