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Changes within the Syrian government started accelerating earlier this year as the elder Assad's health began to decline. A general who had questioned why another Assad should become President was retired, and a former Prime Minister was arrested on corruption charges. Soon after, the entire 37-member cabinet resigned en masse, allowing Bashar to recommend suitable candidates for some jobs in the new cabinet. "An improved administration is the key to this process," he told Al-Hayat, a London-based Arabic paper...
...journalists--online, in print, on TV--to balance what people will reward with what, in our informed opinion, matters. With this irrefutable math, it may become impossible. "A lot of issues that are important in the long run are kind of wonky," says Salon's erstwhile media writer, Sean Elder. Subjects of limited appeal, like international news, may survive in niche publications, but what about general-interest ones like Salon (or TIME)? Ciao to classical music. So long, Sierra Leone. And goodbye to the quaint notion that readers should care about anything beyond their existing interests. The media of tomorrow...
...until a few months ago that he harbored no presidential ambitions. But in a scenario eerily reminiscent of India's Gandhi family - in which Rajiv found greatness thrust upon him after Indira's preferred heir, Sanjay, died in a plane crash - Bashar may have had no choice after his elder brother, Basil, died in a car crash. Like Rajiv Gandhi, Bashar had been educated in Britain before returning home to reluctantly fill a deceased parent's shoes. And Syria's brutal authoritarian tradition certainly offers Bashar plenty of reason to sweat over the possibility that, like Rajiv, he could...
...McCain types who will be decisive. Both candidates know how to play rough, and both of them, I suspect, are persuaded that you cannot win without ruthlessness. The Marquis of Queensberry is for losers. George W. Bush imitates his father in almost all things; in 1988 Bush the elder hit Michael Dukakis with a number of rabbit punches - the Willie Horton business, for example...
...There it is. Second-year Harvard Coach Tim Murphy had not only eight seniors to work with, but also a strong class of freshman swimmers. Instead of egos clashing, the elder statesmen nurtured and encouraged the amazing youngsters, creating another year of competitive Crimson success...