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...Turkey, Russia, France, and the moderate Arab regimes certainly agree with the U.S. and the Israelis that a Hamas government that engages in terrorism is intolerable. But they're more inclined to give Hamas the opportunity to govern responsibly rather than to immediately take steps to topple or force it to make symbolic concessions. Hamas will be judged less by its symbolic declarations than by its actions, and those that are advocating giving Hamas time to prove its bona fides will use that position as leverage against any move by Hamas to end its cease-fire...
...govern in Haiti alone," added Mark Schneider of the International Crisis Group. "You need sufficient cooperation from the losers so that parliament can function and the government can deal with the fundamental problems that makes Haiti the last on every list of human security issues in the hemisphere." Literacy and employment are less than 50 percent and potable water is available to only 25 percent of Haiti's 8 million-plus people. The annual income is $390 per person, less than it was in 1995 allowing for inflation...
...Kirby, a scholar of China, introduced Lawrence H. Summers at a meeting of alumni donors back in fall 2004, he offered a telling, if elaborate, metaphor for the University president’s relationship with the Faculty.“Confucius asked, ‘How does one govern a family’—or, by extension, a university? And his answer was this, ‘You govern a family’—or a university—’as if you would cook a small fish. That is, very gently indeed...
...what kind of change? It's a question that puzzles even Harper's supporters, who watched him transform himself from a crusader for limited government into a family-friendly mainstream politician. That shift was partly an expression of pragmatism in a nation that tends to shun extremes. But it also reflected a rare political trait: the ability to rise above the ideological-hothouse atmosphere of Reform Party politics in the west to become a leader capable of attracting support from skeptics. His core economic conservatism is unlikely to have changed as much as some suggest--Harper is not and never...
...does come up with a way to keep the money flowing, it may try to use that to force Hamas to adapt. "If Hamas wants to be in a position to govern, it is going to have to depend on the outside world," says former U.S. Middle East negotiator Dennis Ross. "They're going to try to fuzz the issue and say, 'We'll just deal with internal needs and let Abu Mazen and others deal with Israel and the international bodies,'" says Ross. "But Hamas is going to have to make some choices. They're going to be faced...