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...seen, both then and now, as an asset in reorganizing a University marred by internal strife.“The situation today seems to be similar in some respects,” Bok writes in an e-mail. “The faculties are at least to some extent divided, trust seems to be in short supply, and strong emotions have been in evidence.”LEADERSHIP 101Vagt’s favorite memory of Bok is from his tenure as law school dean. Agitated students threatened to take over a room where the faculty was scheduled to have...
...would be willing to intervene in such a civil conflict, they have also made any such withdrawal an even greater challenge. The strategy for drawing down U.S. force levels, after all, has been predicated on replacing them with Iraqi units. But the sectarian upsurge has also highlighted the troubling extent to which many of the men in the most capable Iraqi security units remain loyal to ethnic and sectarian agendas. Shi'ite leader al-Hakim, for instance, had initially blamed the Samarra bombing in part on Khalilzad's pressure on his party to relinquish control of the Interior Ministry, which...
...THINK THE PROBLEM COULD DEVELOP TO THE EXTENT THAT IT HAS IN THE NETHERLANDS OR FRANCE? No, because you don't have the same numbers. And Australians are pragmatic; they will adjust. I'm optimistic. But unless you talk about it, you can't solve the problem. People are saying things about these sorts of issues now that they wouldn't have been game to five years ago. They would have been jumped on from a great height and told they were bigoted and prejudiced and that multicultralism is the great national cement...
...Larijani: Certainly we are not going to take the first steps. This does not mean that for that purpose [preventing Security Council action] we shall abandon all our rights. But if there is a proposal that the rights of Iran can be secured to some extent for the present time, and the other rights can be secured through negotiations, we are open to that. In a letter that I sent to the Europeans, I told the ministers that we are prepared to talk to you to come up with a formula that prevents diversion from peaceful nuclear technology [to nuclear...
...substantial extent, the prospects of averting a full-blown civil war will depend on how al-Sadr chooses to deploy his militia--as a revenge-seeking lynch mob or as enforcers of Shi'ite restraint. Because of his popularity with the Shi'ite masses, any effort to broker a cease-fire between the sects and form a durable Iraqi government that can contain the violence will require his active cooperation. It's an indication of how badly things are going for the Bush Administration that its hopes are pinned to a man implacably hostile toward the U.S.--and whose supporters...