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...more succinct: The Embattled Mr. Blair. But only the last one was printed during the most recent of Tony Blair's many crises. The others ran even before the British Prime Minister led his party to a second landslide victory in the 2001 election. Blair can always take comfort that whatever consumes the political class in Westminster - like the current flap over his arrogant announcement, in a press release and without prior consultation, that he planned to eliminate the 1,400-year-old office of Lord Chancellor, create a Supreme Court and appoint his old flatmate to be Minister...
...same Fatah officials, Abbas told Arafat that he should disband the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a murderous group of gunmen loosely supported by Fatah. "We should dissociate ourselves from them and put an end to the armed intifadeh," he told a stony-faced Arafat, say the sources. Arafat declined. Taking comfort from U.S. support for his assuming a greater leadership role, Abbas went behind Arafat's back to hold secret meetings with Sharon at his Sycamores Farm in the Negev Desert in February, according to senior Palestinian officials...
...Minister Begum Khaleda Zia. The village of Puiya is known as an area with al-Qaeda sympathies; police recently arrested 17 suspected militants there for distributing posters and tapes featuring Osama bin Laden. "That brings in the global terror angle, and we're too close to all this for comfort," says an Indian intelligence source. He may as well be speaking for the world...
...academic experience should be writing an innovative and thoughtful paper. Yet in a stunning number of social science classes, especially government classes, professors demand no outside research—in fact, they discourage it by explicitly declaring that all the sources needed for a paper are included in the comfort of your very own sourcebook. These papers prioritize good writing and solid arguments, but they place little value on rigorous thought and dedicated research...
...Justice is not to be embarrassed, but to be proud, and to hire more Sandels and to provide some incentives for others to be as good at teaching and as appealing in their choice of subject matter. Strangely, the curriculum is determined almost entirely by what faculty feel comfortable teaching rather than by what students want to learn. It is very hard to force Harvard faculty out of their comfort zone, even to teach introductory or survey courses...