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...principles and high-minded long-term projects in the face of a public demanding easy answers and immediate results. His Middle East-democracy campaign is Wilsonian. His support for the Dubai ports deal is reminiscent of Jimmy Carter's support for relinquishing control of the Panama Canal-difficult to explain politically but in the nation's best long-term interests. Does anyone actually believe that the management suits in Dubai would run those ports any differently from the suits in Britain? Wouldn't the new Arab owners be even more conscious of security, since they wouldn't want their newly...
Gere was then ordered to briefly explain the plot of the aforementioned film, but without using the words “Mothman” or “prophecies...
...because of racism or homophobia.“No improper spending was ever documented,” he insists. “There’s never been a mayor like me in Massachusetts. I have and will again face peculiar scrutinies that I can’t explain unless I look to some sort of -isms.”Ultimately, Reeves paid back the money he owed, according to longtime local political observer Robert Winters.Winters calls Reeves’ financial missteps a result of unfortunate absentmindedness. “A lot of it was sloppiness and being...
...Marlin's proverb comes to mind because that's pretty much the dividing line in the Dubai Ports controversy this week: between intellect and instinct, between those who say they can explain this deal and those who say there is no explaining...
While Summers had long suffered from frosty relations with some segments of the Faculty, his troubles deepened on Jan. 14 of last year, when he told an academic conference that “issues of intrinsic aptitude” might partly explain the underrepresentation of women in the upper echelons of the science and engineering fields...