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...rethink my feelings about our President. It has been easy over the past several years to criticize his ability to lead our country. But after reading about his unreported positive contributions to millions of Africans, I have a renewed sense of faith in the American people. We elected a President who by most measures hasn't done a very good job but has a good heart. I hope that next time around we will elect someone with a kind heart and good judgment. Larry Kimmel, Bend...
...Serbia, itself, Russia capitalized literally, on the standoff over Kosovo. In Belgrade, just a week before he became Russia's President-elect, Dmitri Medvedev supervised Serbia's signing up to a prospective Russian Southern Stream natural gas pipe-line. Serbia also sold to Russia a 51% stake of Naftna Industrija Srbija (NIS), a much prized national oil company for $614 million and the promise of a further investment of $770 million. Russia plans build a major gas storage facility in Serbia, making the country a key base for Russian energy supplies to Europe. This consolidation of ties with Serbia achieves...
Former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele emphasized the important role that students will play in the upcoming election at the sixth annual Lincoln Day Dinner in Eliot House dining hall last night. The Harvard Republican Club (HRC) and the Black Men’s Forum (BMF) co-sponsored the dinner, which attracted approximately 150 students—the largest audience ever to attend an HRC event, according to HRC President Caleb L. Weatherl ’10. Steele, who became the first African American elected to a state-wide office in Maryland when he became lieutenant governor...
...part of the anger over the treatment of prisoners in Guantánamo Bay is explained not just by the fact that torture may have been used, but by the sense that the U.S. has failed to live up to its own ideals. For many non-Americans, the U.S. elections hold out the promise of change, of renewed leadership. "A lot of what French people identify as negative influences and trends do emanate from American society, but much of what French society strives for and aspires to often first takes root in the U.S. as well," says an adviser...
...dramatic veto, however, masked SIIC's weakness. It has been the dominant party in the country's south since the elections of 2005, which Sadr boycotted. SIIC, however, has squandered its mandate and has been unable to deliver services and improvements to its constituents. With Sadr now planning to run a slate of candidates there in elections originally scheduled for this October, SIIC fears that the implementation of the Provincial Powers law will only further weaken its hold on the south, especially if a strengthened central government can swoop in and remove inimical SIIC governors. The polls, which will elect...