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...TIME: The government has long subsidized fuel. But oil costs are rising, and the subsidies are straining the budget. Yet if you remove them, the price hikes could set off riots, as they have in the past. What will you do? YUDHOYONO: I've asked the relevant ministers to conduct an analysis of the impact of higher fuel costs on the subsidy policy and the 2005 budget. If the subsidies seriously burden the budget, then I will set new policies that might affect the price of certain fuels, particularly those not consumed by the poor. Kerosene and diesel would still...
Finally, it’s odd that Gray praises the president for not allowing 9/11 to change his plans for invading Iraq, since her point is that 9/11 changed forever the way the United States needs to conduct its security. In that case, one might think that because of 9/11, the president would have realized that terrorism was a greater and more immediate danger to the United States than Iraq was, and put his Iraq plans on hold until Al Qaeda was defeated and America was made safe from terrorism. Sadly, he did not. And, because the president made Iraq...
This is in response to the column on Oct. 26 (“A Pre-9/11 Mentality”). 9/11 changed this nation forever—it changed the way we secure our country and conduct intelligence. The President has managed to deal with these changes in creating the Department of Homeland Security and in adopting an offensive—not defensive—stance against terrorists under uncertain and quickly changing times. The fact that Bush and members of his administration planned to invade Iraq before 9/11 was foresight that the Clinton administration did not have?...
...class meets for five hours on Tuesdays, two hours in the morning and three in the evening. The sessions consist of brief lectures but mostly of labs. In the week between classes, students are required to keep a journal and conduct observations of stars on their own, said Joseph M. Depasquale, the head teaching fellow...
...Sistani tends to express principles that leave the details open to interpretation. He communicates them before and after sunset prayers, when he addresses his followers' 1,001 questions on proper religious observance, social behavior and personal conduct. He engages in a busy written dialogue with his followers by letter and via the Internet. Not long ago, Rifat al-Amin, a university student in Baghdad, wrote the ayatullah to ask whether protests by his followers should take place in narrow streets where they would block traffic. The marja replied that demonstrations should take place in wide squares instead. Al-Amin also...