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...voted for exactly the same Iraq resolution, a phased withdrawal without a fixed timetable. Both he and Clinton voted against John Kerry's proposal to withdraw all troops by July 2007, for reasons that still sound good today. "What is needed is a blueprint for an expeditious yet responsible exit from Iraq," Obama said on the Senate floor last June. "A hard and fast, arbitrary deadline for withdrawal offers our commanders in the field ... insufficient flexibility to implement that strategy." Clinton remains opposed to timetables, but Obama decided to change his position and in January announced the March 2008 date...
...desire to heal the planet needn't be stopped by death. In Australia a funeral company is offering the green crowd an eco-friendly coffin in which to exit. The boxes are made of wood fiber, 90% of which is derived from recycled materials; natural glue holds them together. In the U.S., woodland cemeteries are another way the funeral industry has gone green. Here are a few more paths to an environmentally correct afterlife...
...June 1940, the U.S. State Department had toughened the visa-application process. Candidates had to show "a good reason" for seeking U.S. admittance, not just a need to exit Europe, says American University historian Richard Breitman. "The State Department frequently reduced the number of immigration visas granted below the annual quota levels... by enforcing strict immigration regulations." Why? National security concerns, fear of foreigners - and, some have argued, anti-Semitism...
...before hurrying away down the street.A couple more overseers trickled out, carefully side-stepping questions about whether a vote had taken place. Finally, at 2:45 p.m., two overseers enthusiastically confirmed that Drew Gilpin Faust would become Harvard’s 28th president.Board members continued to exit the building. Overseer Richard I. Melvoin ’73 signalled his support for the president-elect by donning a crimson tie emblazoned with golden trees, the symbol of the Radcliffe Institute that Faust currently leads.Frances D. Fergusson, one of the three overseer members of the nine-person presidential search committee that recommended...
...walking past the hundreds of booths and brushing off the clutching hands and pleas to "come inside, mister, just looking," I noticed a series of very serious, official-looking documents pasted up prominently on the wall near the exit. Scanning them, I realized they were the proudly posted announcement of an earlier court judgment in which 23 prominent brand manufacturers sued the Silk Market for counterfeiting. On January 17 the Chaoyang district court in Beijing weighed in with the head-snapping pronouncement that there was not enough evidence of counterfeiting at the Silk Market to convict. As I stood there...