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...Senator Strom Thurmond that labeled the racial integration of Southern schools a “clear abuse of judicial power.” A glimpse at today’s newspapers, plastered as many of them are with pictures and coverage of America’s first black President-elect, reveals exactly how much has changed in the 52 intervening years. Much of that transformation can be envisioned in, and in some cases attributed to, the lengthy and remarkable political career of the graduate in question, now-Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’56, who was awarded an honorary...
Efforts to push this project forward require both state and federal support. On the state level, in the same way that Massachusetts has taken the lead in biotechnology, making Cambridge a hub in that field, a similar movement should take place championing sustainable energy. On the federal level, President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to make domestic sustainability a focus of his environmental policy, but even the outgoing administration should be given credit for offering its support to Cape Wind. Sadly, much still needs to be done from a bureaucratic perspective: The Coastal Zone Management has yet to approve...
...hard to miss the message that Barack Obama was sending with the powerful tableau lined up behind him onstage in Chicago. "I assembled this team because I'm a strong believer in strong personalities and strong opinions," the President-elect said of his national-security picks. The top three members of that team certainly fit the description. In Hillary Clinton, Obama is getting a Secretary of State who battled him to the bitter end of a Democratic primary season focused largely on the question of who was better equipped to be Commander in Chief. In bringing in retired Marine general...
...potential for disputes would seem to be even greater for Obama's team, given how its members have disagreed with the President-elect and one another on not only the Iraq war but also a range of other policy fronts that include Iran, Afghanistan, missile defense and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Whatever their differences in the past, however, Obama insists they can work together: "They would not have agreed to join my Administration and I would not have asked them to be part of this Administration unless we shared a core vision...
...seen to be responding to the Mumbai atrocities; at the same time, it has to prevent a confrontation with Pakistan that jeopardizes the U.S. effort in Afghanistan; and finally, it must avoid provoking a domestic political crisis in Pakistan that could bring down Zardari's civilian government. President-elect Barack Obama has made clear his desire to resolve the India-Pakistan conflict as a basis for stabilizing democracy and eliminating terrorism in Pakistan. The Mumbai massacre, however, may make crisis-management, rather than resolution, the order of the day for quite some time to come...