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...president for public policy at the American Federation of Teachers and former co-chair of the Democratic National Committee’s rules and bylaws committee. Jim Ramstad, a former Minnesota Congressman who has been mentioned as a possible choice to head the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and Teresa Vilmain, a political organizer and consultant, have also been selected. —Staff writer Evan T. R. Rosenman can be reached at erosenm@fas.harvard.edu...
...would be less likely to support sectarian belligerents in that divided nation. The bipartisan Iraq Study Group contends that a friendlier Iran is crucial to this endeavor. If the US establishes relations, it will be able to use its diplomatic and economic clout to garner enforceable agreements on arms control between Iraq and Iran. Coming to an accord will certainly help secure the safety of American troops. Other problems with the Islamic Republic notwithstanding, the potential to disarm the enemies of American soldiers should take first priority...
...This is why the inauguration of Obama as the nation’s first half-white president was nothing to celebrate. One can only succeed as a black American—in politics or at your job—by submitting to majority authority and control. You can’t say you don’t want to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. You can’t suggest you were ever not proud of the country that murdered Indians with gifts infected by smallpox and that blew up little girls as they prayed.You certainly can?...
...leader had withdrawn in the face of the violence - Mugabe unexpectedly announced his intention to share power. Ever since, the two sides have been deadlocked in negotiations over how that might be accomplished. In the meantime, Zimbabwe's humanitarian crisis has sharply deteriorated. Inflation has spiraled out of control, unemployment is near universal, poverty is endemic, hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled the country and close to 3,000 people have died of cholera since the collapse of water and sewage systems in the capital, Harare. (See pictures of political tension in Zimbabwe...
...hour meeting - the latest in a series of regional summits on the issue. An accompanying communiqué said agreement had been reached on key points, including the naming of MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai to a newly created post of Prime Minister on February 11, and the shared control of the Home Affairs ministry, which controls the police, for six months...