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Iran and the U.S. Re "Talking and Listening to Iran" [Feb. 23]: Those Iranians who favor better relations with the U.S. should remember that the U.S. supported the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister in 1953. The U.S. supported Saddam Hussein against Iran during the war, and they shot down an Iranian passenger plane in the Persian Gulf in 1988 killing 300 men, women and children. Iranians should never forget and forgive America. Parviz Zarrabi, MANCHESTER, ENGLAND...
Both Lage and Perez Roque are said to have fallen out of favor with Raúl. But Fidel, in an effort to dispel the widespread appearance of Raulismo vs. Fidelismo, published an essay in the state-run Cuba Debate a day after Raúl's changes in which he insisted that he had signed off on the ousters. In classic Fidel style - portraying fired officials as fallen communist angels - he wrote that Perez Roque and Lage were "liberated from their posts" not because they were Fidelistas but because "the honey of power" had infected them and "awakened...
...what about Afghanistan? It is, once again, a sideshow, given the focus on Pakistan - but it is also where Obama's most important decision will be made: To escalate or not? The military is in favor of an Afghan surge to protect the entire population in the provinces affected by the Taliban insurgency. That could mean another 15,000 troops, or more, on top of the 17,000 already sent. It might even succeed; the Afghan people are terrified by the Taliban, but they do want law and order - which the corrupt Karzai government has failed to provide and Petraeus...
...development. Neither the NIH nor the NSF provided comment regarding the timeline for allocating the funds yesterday. The decision depends on further instruction from Congress and the Office of Management and Budget, an NSF spokesperson said. Last year, University President Drew G. Faust testified before a Senate committee in favor of bolstering the NIH budget. Faust argued at the time that the 13 percent loss in real dollars of NIH funding had “a cascading impact that [was] slowing progress and threatening future research that could lead to cures—and even ways to prevent disease...
Though Samir's words cannot be put into Benedict's mouth, it is widely acknowledged that the Jesuit scholar continues to enjoy great favor in the Pope's inner circle, which includes Monsignor Khaled Akasheh, head of the Muslim section of the Vatican's Council for Interreligious Dialogue, who is considered an intellectual ally of Samir. "It is not that he is inspired by me," Samir says of the Pope. "We just have the same line of thinking on this subject. Without being a specialist of Islam, His Holiness has a vast culture and knowledge in human and world religious...