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...Much now hinges on Allawi's ability to balance, confront, accommodate, console and placate the competing interests of a diverse group of Iraqi constituencies who now sense that the future is in play. Because one of the defining features of the current transition is that there is no clear Plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rolling the Dice in Iraq | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

...Energy and Education, he added a new Cabinet-level department, for Veterans Affairs. The archconservative who was skeptical of Social Security ultimately was credited with saving it. He came into office looking not to survive the cold war but to win it, building up America's defenses to confront the "evil empire" but then backing off enough to give Mikhail Gorbachev room to change course. Reagan may have been the champion of missile defense, but he also declared as his dream the complete abolition of nuclear weapons, a position that made even the moderates around him flinch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The All-American President: Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) | 6/14/2004 | See Source »

...Even assuming we fulfill those plans over the next several years, we will before long confront an insufficiency of space for science,” he wrote...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks and Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Searching for a College in Allston | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...enough for Harvard to stay afloat in the sciences. In his October letter to the community, Summers said that even with expansion plans in Cambridge and the new 525,000-square-foot New Research Building at the medical school, “we will before long confront an insufficiency of space for science...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The DNA of Harvard Falling Behind | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...parties, many feel that any change is welcome. "At last, something has moved," sighs one South Asian diplomat. And not a moment too soon: Maoist leaders say they are preparing for a "nationwide attack" against the government in the near future. Deuba must make peace with the opposition and confront the growing Maoist problem, or Nepal will keep going round in circles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: By Royal Appointment | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

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