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...community, the military, and even the Republican Party's foreign policy establishment have been saying for quite some time - that the occupation of Iraq has created more problems for U.S. national security than it has solved, and has left America more vulnerable rather than safer. That view echoes the consensus of mostly Republican national security professionals interviewed by James Fallows in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly. It also appeared to coincide with a barrage of criticism by Senate Republicans of the administration's handling of Iraq, echoing many of Kerry's points and even, in the case...
...forensic and typewriter experts consulted by TIME and other major media organizations have not reached a consensus on the authenticity of the memos. Some insist it would have been nearly impossible for a 1970s-era typewriter to produce the memos because of the letter spacing in the documents and the use of a raised and compact th symbol. But Bill Glennon, a technology consultant in New York City who worked for IBM repairing typewriters from 1973 to 1985, says those experts "are full of crap. They just don't know." Glennon says there were IBM machines capable of producing...
They kicked off the redesign effort last spring and launched the revamped site early this month. “The redesign was sparked by University-wide consensus that there was a need to reinvigorate the portal in order to make it both lively and timely,” Davis said...
There are other great concentrations at Harvard, of course. I was in one (Social Studies) and I’m jointly appointed with another (English). Still other concentrations and faculty members in other departments have earned my gratitude by doing the hard work of teaching film and building the consensus for film studies when it had no proper curricular home. But now it does, and so you are free to choose...
...extent that there is a Shiite political consensus, it is personified in the demand by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani that Iraq's transition be managed by a democratically elected government, and that such a government be elected forthwith. Sistani had previously threatened massive street demonstrations to ensure that such a poll be held immediately, and it took UN intervention to coax him into accepting the January date. Sistani on Wednesday reiterated his demand that the poll go ahead on schedule, his remarks a reminder that further delay could bring new political instability...