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Democracy in Action In your article about democracy in Asia, you stated that "a fundamental function [of government is to] protect citizens from harm" [Jan. 12]. This is just what the Israeli government is doing. After repeatedly warning Hamas that it would attack if Hamas continued to rain rockets on Israel, Israel attacked. The Palestinian people governed by Hamas are suffering terribly, but the Hamas leaders refuse to stop the attacks. They care more about trying to destroy Israel than helping their own people. Why is the Indian government blamed for not protecting its people when Israel is condemned...
...formation of the school-wide committee, which will function as a subcommittee of the University-wide review, comes as conflict of interest issues have received national scrutiny. (The Harvard-wide review is being led by David Korn ’54, a former dean of Stanford Medical School who is occupying the newly-created position of vice provost for research...
...Observers say that higher-than-average FDIC losses are a function of the market, not the FDIC's dealmaking prowess. Sources close to the IndyMac sale said there were only a handful of submitted bids, not all of which were to buy the whole bank. And while the FDIC has had to take on some troubled assets, the agency has retained just 4% of the assets of the banks that have failed. That's far less than what it has had to retain in the past. In the S&L crisis, the FDIC was on average swallowing nearly...
...idea was for each former chief to give Emanuel some practical advice on how to function in his new role. And so around the table they went: Donald Rumsfeld reminded Emanuel that no one is indispensable. Sam Skinner talked about the importance of taking Sundays off. Former Reagan chief Ken Duberstein urged Barack Obama's incoming chief to remember that the President is always the chief and everyone else, by contrast, is merely staff...
...mail storm n.-- The result of a mass e-mail in which each recipient responds using the reply-all function...