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Regardless of whether the current trend is to be "on the level of the people" in terms of brainpower, such a blatant lack of understanding about key international players is disturbing. Yes, it is unfair to expect a candidate to know specific details about each and every issue that could possibly be introduced. At the same time, the four countries mentioned have been in the news frequently; it's not as if Bush was asked to name the five major exports of Sri Lanka...
Papandreou began his speech in Boylston Hall by describing the general trends that are shaping the current global environment. The audience struggled with the weighty disappointments that have been the hallmark of Greek-Turkish clashes. The audience also grappled with the conception of Papandreou as a leader. For one thing, he lacks the charisma of a shepherd, the traditional leader. For another, he does not come across as the most impressive orator...
...This week the United States Army complained that because of peacekeeping commitments, two of its 10 divisions aren't battle ready. According to current military doctrine, how many regional wars should the U.S. be able to fight at one time...
Quite simply, this could be the deepest, tallest, most complete women's basketball team Harvard has ever seen, even without an obvious go-to player like Feaster, the three-time Ivy League Player of the Year and current member of the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks...
...reporter Alain Sanders, "is that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court threw up its hands and basically told the Supreme Court, 'Please do your job and provide us guidance.'" Sanders notes that while the Supreme Court in the first half of the century traditionally filed single 10-page majority opinions, the current court typically files multiple 50-page opinions on each side of a decision. The result, he says, is that "the lower courts never know what the rulings are. We don't need law treatises, we need rulings...