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...probably a decent guy, but he's in way over his head. I think he got gun-shy as a result of that heisting of the election in 2000. I don't think he ever even thought of himself as a legitimate President. And rather than try to govern by some sort of consensus or at least involve some other points of view, he's tried to make up for it by this arrogant conduct of foreign policy. By the way, it's not like I think Senator Kerry would be much better...
...October 14, President Summers announced Harvard’s adoption of six sustainability principles to govern campus construction and operations. These principles represent the first step in what may become America’s largest effort in sustainable campus design. President Summers has made it University policy that “operating our campus in an environmentally sustainable way is not only the right thing to do as a citizen and neighbor, it is also an economically sound way to conduct our business...
...telephone from an undisclosed location. At the same time, any victory that smells too much of U.S. influence could taint rather than legitimize Karzai and widen the murderous ethnic divisions among Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras. The vote could also conceivably strengthen the warlords, weakening Karzai's ability to govern. He's trying to secure victory through brokered deals, offering some of the warlords jobs in his next Cabinet. As John Sifton of Human Rights Watch, a U.S. monitoring group, says, "Votes aren't being campaigned for; they're being bought by strongmen." Afghans, in other words, still live under...
...political expedience - or it may be a way to impart a democratic glow to a foreign and domestic policy agenda that's long been dear to his Socialist Party (PSOE). But whether it's shtick or statesmanship, it has worked surprisingly well in the early days of Zapatero's government. Often derided as a compromise candidate who wasn't expected to win, Zapatero, 44, is riding high. A poll commissioned earlier this month by the radio network Cadena SER, which is considered close to the Socialists, found his approval rating at 60%, the highest of any Spanish politician in years...
...sometimes. And if the CIA used to decide how elections turned out in other countries, then it's about time we foreigners played a part in deciding who sits in the Oval Office. The benefits are obvious. The world would finally have a real voice in deciding who will govern it for the next four years, while presidential candidates would be forced to ask us for our votes and not just enjoy our oil exports or our appetite for Big Macs and Hollywood blockbusters. If the U.S. invades one of us - or makes a Titanic sequel - we can respond...