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Columbus Day might be the first time this fall when sleepy students get to skip their 9 a.m. sections in celebration of the nation’s history, but tomorrow, campus patriots will be able to get an earlier federalist fix. Classes will remain in session, but Harvard will celebrate Constitution Day on Sept. 20, following President Bush’s December 2004 law mandating that all schools receiving federal funding must provide an annual lesson on the founding document. To honor the anniversary of the Sept. 17, 1787 signing of the Constitution, Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative...
...week after Pope Benedict XVI crashed onto the front pages with his controversial remarks on Islam, two central questions hang over the Holy See: How did that inflammatory quote get into the speech in the first place, and how do we get him out of this fix (and off the front pages)? The answers - tied both to the Pope's old habits and recent changes in the Roman Curia bureaucracy - are key to helping Catholicism's communicator-in-chief manage his message more smoothly and prevent another PR disaster like this one from happening again...
Whether such talk will be enough to save the two nations from a confrontation remains to be seen. Nor is it clear that Ahmadinejad's own job is secure. Impatience with his failure to fix Iran's economy is growing, and there is some speculation that the Old Guard may try to push him out. But until then, he seems likely to keep challenging the West, stirring things up. He aspires to unite Muslim opinion and make Iran the dominant player in the Middle East, restoring the country to its ancient imperial glory...
...With the public turning inward, Ahmadinejad is now vulnerable to criticism that he hasn't improved the economy. He campaigned on a platform of creating new jobs, lowering prices and fighting corruption, but his government seems unable to fix any of those things. Although Iran's exports have benefited from the high price of oil, the costs of housing and many basic commodities have risen noticeably since the president's election. Ahmadinejad has also unnerved young Iranians by reviving some social restrictions and imposing a more Islamic atmosphere on university campuses. In recent months, the government has shut down...
...arrives within 10 days. Order from Lenovo and it could come as quickly. Or you could go on vacation for a couple of weeks, and it may or may not be there when you return. "Outside of China, our supply chain is not world class," Amelio admits. To help fix the problem, he poached Dell's Gerry Smith to run supply-chain management--a Dell specialty...