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...appropriations bill. "The Bush Administration bends over backwards for industry while turning its back on needed homeland-security safeguards," Markey complains. "It's commerce over common sense." But Russ Knocke, a DHS spokesman, argues that such public-private partnerships maximize security without "shutting down the systems and industries we depend upon...
...reasons countries such as Singapore and China are luring our scientists away with tempting paychecks is that they know the American spirit of innovation cannot be matched. Our inventiveness doesn't depend on government money. It comes from the energy of those who dare to experiment in their garages and backyards. Anyone can be the next great inventor, and that entrepreneurial spirit is here to stay...
...substantial extent, the prospects of averting a full-blown civil war will depend on how al-Sadr chooses to deploy his militia--as a revenge-seeking lynch mob or as enforcers of Shi'ite restraint. Because of his popularity with the Shi'ite masses, any effort to broker a cease-fire between the sects and form a durable Iraqi government that can contain the violence will require his active cooperation. It's an indication of how badly things are going for the Bush Administration that its hopes are pinned to a man implacably hostile toward the U.S.--and whose supporters...
...letter to the Harvard community that divestment could be justified in extreme circumstances where the investments “work in significant ways to further improper ends or to uphold unethical principles.”Bok wrote that universities “may refuse to invest in firms that depend heavily on conditions or practices of an immoral nature.”Last April, Bok’s views were cited by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR)—a group of students and faculty that advises the Corporation, Harvard’s highest body, on investment...
...security measures remain the same. All sorts of terminals all over the US are run by foreign entities; this deal would be no different, they argue. And if we back out of this one, they add, we send a dreadful signal to foreign investors, on whom we increasingly depend...