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...selecting his cabinet. Behind the scenes, however, their opposition helped dissuade Bush from nominating Gonzales to the Supreme Court and, over the years, they have regularly disparaged him as too soft on key issues such as affirmative action and abortion. But as the President's popularity and political clout continue to decline, the group's assault on the Attorney General is designed to rally a growing number of Republicans who seem to hope that Gonzales will finally step aside. His testimony, however, gives no indication that he intends...
...situation is an emergency. Congress must realize that workers turned away may be a permanent loss and must respond by issuing additional visas for this year as soon as possible. Harvard administrators—along with leaders of higher education across the country—ought to use their clout to inform lawmakers about plight of international students and lobby for an increase in the cap.Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, testifying to Congress about the H-1B shortfall, said that “America’s immigration policies are driving away the world’s best and brightest precisely...
Villepin, a longtime critic of the American military presence in Iraq, described the war as “a turning point” that eroded the global clout of the U.S. and hurt the cause of democracy...
...fact, of course, reforming the old socialist system is exactly the point of the law, individual property rights being a core tenet of a functioning capitalist economy. Last year, conservative voices had enough residual clout to get the legislation dropped from consideration. This year, in an evident move to quash dissent, all discussion of the property law was banned. When the respected weekly Caijing defied the ban and drafted a cover story on the law, authorities forced the magazine to drop the story at the last minute. That Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and President Hu Jintao were forced...
...fall, we aired “An Inconvenient Truth” to over 1,000 people. We then passed another referendum with almost 90 percent of the vote, this time to pressure Harvard to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Our subsequent meetings with administrators have been promising, and with the clout “sustainability” has garnered in business and popular culture, we may be getting somewhere. While some might find such acquiescence antithetical to “activism,” I’ve found that, in doing service to my ideological goals, smiles and handshakes...