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Blink for a moment and you can imagine that--as many Chinese would tell the tale--after nearly 200 years of foreign humiliation, invasion, civil war, revolution and unspeakable horrors, China is preparing for a date with destiny. "The Chinese wouldn't put it this way themselves," says Lieberthal. "But in their hearts I think they believe that the 21st century is China's century...
Because the University seals access to presidential search papers for 80 years, the most recent records available date from a very different era: the 1908 quest to replace retiring University President Charles W. Eliot. In that search, the Corporation—the University’s top governing body—selected A. Lawrence Lowell, a member of the Class of 1877 and a popular Government professor...
...centerpiece of Bush's new strategy is to somehow compel the Iraqis to take a variety of self-starting steps - politically, militarily, economically - that they have not to date. But there is no apparent mechanism to compel them to do so. The Study group proposed that Bush threaten to quickly reduce U.S. troop levels in Iraq as a way to compel the Iraqis to stand up; but Bush has instead decided to simply pour more troops in to help them stand...
...Last month, in a gambit aimed at forcing Hamas to accept his terms for a unity government, Abbas called for new elections. He did not, however, name a date, and it remains unclear whether he has the constitutional authority to demand an early poll. So, while Hamas accused him of carrying out Washington's orders and vowed to boycott and disrupt any such poll, Fatah hawks complained that his failure to actually name a date or put the election process in motion signaled continued indecision. Meanwhile, on the ground, the militants of both organizations began trading fire as never before...
...companies earned the University widespread praise as the catalyst for a national movement in which 30 other universities and six states have divested from companies supporting the Sudanese government’s genocidal regime. This movement has generated more leverage over Khartoum than most of the governmental approaches to date. So while the revelations about the scale of Harvard’s indirect investments are deeply troubling, there is still reason to be hopeful that Harvard will take the action necessary to live up to its positive public reputation on this issue...