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...very hard to persuade.”The words of his first annual report in 1971 are almost more salient today. “In the end,” he wrote, “the President must recognize that the progress of the University will always depend fundamentally upon the imagination and ability of the faculty, students, and staff...
There's nothing inevitable about civil war in Iraq, but whether or not the sectarian violence that has killed hundreds in the past week devolves into full-blown conflagration will depend on choices made by political leaders. As bodies continued to pile up, Tuesday, following a series of suicide bombings that killed at least 55 people, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad suggested the crisis had passed because Iraq's elected leaders had decided to work together to avoid a civil war. Khalilzad has been working behind the scenes to coax the main Sunni parliamentary parties back to the negotiating table...
...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...