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...Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, a non-profit research organization specializing in U.S.-Latin America relations. “The whole question is forming enough coalitions with enough groups to ring up the votes.” Birns said Montealegre is widely perceived as the U.S. government??s preferred candidate. Birns added that officials believe Ortega, the former Marxist who ruled the country in the 1980s, could ally with Venezulean President Hugo Chavez. “Even though Ortega doesn’t have a Marxist bone left in his body, it is still enough...
...succinct queries of Woodward’s opinion to confrontational polemics. Woodward acknowledged the media’s culpability in the overestimation of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, which have not been found, but emphasized that the current situation in Iraq is “the government??s fault.” Reviews of Woodward’s latest book have remarked on its apparent departure from the previous two in the series, which critics say were more sympathetic toward Bush and his staff. Last night, however, Woodward denied having gone soft on the Bush...
Chertoff, who has served as Homeland Security secretary since January 2005, said that the government??s programs were critical to the prevention of future terrorist attacks...
Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) are conducting a survey that will determine whether Americans will comply with the government??s proposed non-pharmaceutical contingency plan for a flu pandemic. The study comes on the heels of a government proposal to use primitive measures to control a killer flu outbreak until a vaccine and treatment drugs are available. But HSPH experts say that the results of the study are still up in the air. “I don’t think anyone can predict the outcome,” HSPH Professor of Health...
...course, hard-liners would say that the problem is leniency, not inconsistency: Harvard must pursue full legal punishment for drug offences because “it’s the law!” But why should the College put itself front line in the Government??s disastrous “war on drugs?” The concept of zero tolerance is both unfair and ineffective: It does little to dissuade drug use, and potentially carries hugely disproportionate penalties—prison and a permanent criminal record—for personal drug use. After all, the campus?...