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Iran: Twilight of the Demagogue? Not yet in the Oval Office, President-elect Obama is already facing strong pressure from both sides of the aisle to treat Iran's nuclear program as an urgent crisis and to escalate diplomatic pressure on Tehran to suspend its uranium-enrichment activities. On the campaign trail Obama both advocated direct talks with Iran and vowed that Tehran would not be allowed to attain a nuclear weapon. Iran is not close to constructing a nuclear weapon, according to U.S. intelligence assessments, but the standoff right now is over whether Iran should be allowed to enrich...
...spent all night in a bus on their way up to Harvard. The long bus ride up the East Coast—which was organized by their social studies teacher, Matthew T. Bosch ’07—was intended to expose the students to college and to enrich their study of American history. “We want them to know what they need to do if they want to go to college,” said Bosch, who is a former vice-president of the Harvard College Democrats and is currently employed by Teach for America...
...stretches far beyond America's shores. "It's genius," says Michael Gubbins, editor of Screen International, a London-based industry magazine, of Disney's HSM marketing strategy. "They've understood that TV is a way to get into people's heads, and that the Internet is a way to enrich that, and that cinema is a place to add to that excitement. It shows exactly the way franchises are going to be built in the future...
...Insurance and Risk Management Department at the Wharton School of business, agrees. "I wouldn't say we'll put any of the modelers or mathematicians out of a job," she says, but still, "every time there's a shift in the landscape, we realize we have to enrich the models, make them more complete, more complex, and bring in some of the richness that the real world can throw at us." Indeed, on Sept. 16, at the request of students, Wharton faculty held a "teach-in" to examine the current financial crisis in the wider context of risk management, among...
...uncommon for criminals to bribe their way out of prison in Afghanistan. But in the north, where warlords still command private militias and enrich their armies by running lucrative smuggling routes, impunity is rife. Police often refuse to register cases against well-known criminals, for fear of retaliation and more often because they are on the take. When Amruddin's 13-year-old daughter was kidnapped in Sar-i-pul province last year, he had to pay for the local police officer's fuel in order to get the officer to visit the café where she had last been...