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...barriers continuously have to be broken.”A native of India who earned a Ph.D. in physics from Cornell, Venky, now a nanoscience researcher, will focus full-time on teaching and research within the SEAS once he steps down. He said he also hoped to guide the creation of broader courses that focus on the intersection of technology and society. Venky announced his intention to return to the faculty in June 2005 but later decided to keep his post in order to help lead the changeover.“I feel that I’ve taken this...
...Even the “Department of Milk and Cookies.” Such a proposal could serve the next president as the first signal of a broader process to demonstrate to our friends an America reconsidering the shadow it casts in the world.Even at the time of its creation, the lexicology of “Homeland Security” drew fire. In 2002 conservative columnist Peggy Noonan suggested that George W. Bush reconsider the name. “Homeland isn’t really an American word,” the former Reagan advisor opined in The Wall Street...
...Britain was forced to decide between radical right and zealous left, with only the unproven Alliance trying to hold the center. The Labor Party's campaign manifesto called for pulling Britain out of the European Community, unilaterally banishing nucle ar weapons from British soil, launching a $17 billion job-creation program and nationalizing a clutch of key industries. The Conservative manifesto, on the other hand, pledged to do the opposite on just about every issue. Aside from staying in the European Community and keeping the missiles, the Tories vowed that they would not resort to inflationary spending to stimulate...
...this for my leader," he said of his masterpiece. "Sharif is going the right way for Pakistan." Musharraf, he says, brought Pakistan suicide bombers and inflation. "Everything now is costing more, so we pray for the success of Mian Nawaz Sharif." Given the delicacy of his decorative creation, there is one more thing he is praying for: "Last night I prayed to god, 'please don't let it rain.'" Yet that outcome would hardly rank against the direr consequences this vote could bring to Pakistan in coming days...
...that courtroom,” Toobin says—he needed all the goodwill he could muster to write this book.“The Nine” goes behind and around the curtain at the Supreme Court to track the rise of the conservative movement, beginning with the creation of the Federalist Society in 1982 and not ending until the close of the judicial term last June. In his book, Toobin makes the point that the Supreme Court is as much at the mercy of politics as any other branch of government, no matter how much anyone wants...