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...revolutions are first and foremost about power, and the most dramatic reform that Chavez may seek - and the most worrisome to his foes - is a constitutional change to remove term limits on the presidency and allow him to run again in 2012. He also says he could create a single party out of the many that support him. The president denied last week that such reforms pointed to increasing authoritarianism, and assured that any constitutional reform would have to pass through a national referendum. "This isn't a dictatorship," he said. "It's democracy...
Brian S. Gillis ’07-’08 says he doesn’t think he’ll win the Undergraduate Council (UC) election. In fact, he’s not after votes—foremost, he wants his voice to be heard...
During an on-set interview, Zwick is quick to emphasize that "first and foremost, this is intended to be an entertaining and dramatic movie." At the same time, the man behind thirtysomething and The Last Samurai takes a storyteller's pleasure in his exploration of Sierra Leone's bloody conflict, which ended in 2002, and the way illegal diamond mining fueled that war. "The issues it evokes are universal, both personally and politically. You can't tell a story about Sierra Leone without thinking about child soldiers. You can't tell a story about Sierra Leone without thinking about refugees...
Second, quantifiable academic criteria, especially SAT scores, are not the sole criteria for college admissions. Colleges are first and foremost academic institutions, but when a college chooses each new class, it does so with the knowledge that not everybody who graduates will be launched into an academic career. A college such as Harvard is searching for students who will be leaders in all spheres of the world, and that search requires picking applicants from all walks of life. Moreover, colleges seek to balance their classes with students of all backgrounds, which is difficult to do if some minorities...
...will. There are too many other actors in the field who have enough influence of their own, or in combination, to prevent the U.S. from prevailing. Those power centers range from the Sunni insurgency and the Shi'ite militias to the Iraqi government and Iraq's neighbors, first and foremost Iran...