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...evasive and start babbling again. 13) Use your powers of animal empathy to communicate with Harvard Yard squirrels. They can chew through your bonds and, working as a team, carry you to freedom. 14) Replace a few strands of your hair with garotte wire. Too intense for you? Fine, fail your final. 15) Burrow into Harvard’s network of steam tunnels and escape to the relative freedom-from-grades of the Business School...
...Assert your Commander-in-Chief authority. In prime time, Bush put more of an onus on Iraqi officials to secure their country while announcing a hike in U.S. troop strength and contending that the U.S. cannot afford to fail. House and Senate Democrats put forward plans to rein him in through the pressure of a bipartisan resolution and harsh scrutiny of the budget request for what they called an "escalation." However, White House officials say the President will not be deterred. They know that Democrats will not cut off funds if doing so could hurt troops, and the Democrats admit...
...There were no answers today to that question - and there are unlikely to be. Bush talked vaguely about benchmarks, but he did not say what would happen if the Iraqis fail to meet them. The framers of the surge - a military historian and a retired general working under the auspices of the American Enterprise Institute - envisioned it taking 18-24 months to stabilize Baghdad and did not tie it to any particular progress by the government. But whatever the levers, there is no agreement that the U.S. can sustain a surge for that long without a significant drop in readiness...
...Arab governments, including those that have helped bolster Abbas, are reportedly alarmed at the prospect of a Palestinian civil war. Even Israeli intelligence officials are reported to have warned their government that any attempt to hold new elections or try to forcibly replace the Hamas government is doomed to fail - for the simple reason that Hamas is more popular than Fatah, especially now that the U.S. is so strongly perceived as backing Abbas...
...screening out the "worst-offending’"companies from any current and future investments. In order to fall into this category, a company must meet all of the following criteria: They must have a business relationship with the Sudanese government or be involved in a government-created project, fail to benefit civilians outside of the government, fail to implement a substantial corporate governance policy regarding the genocide, and fail to respond to attempts at shareholder engagement. In other words, it is a high...