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...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...
...expert at plotting attacks against Israel. But now the chain-smoking Hamas military commander is trying to map out a different sort of plan: how to govern the Palestinians. The operative, a veteran of 16 years fighting Israel, met in the West Bank with other Hamas officials last week to celebrate the militant Islamic party's remarkable victory in Palestinian legislative elections and to figure out what in the world to do next. Dozens of meetings like that took place across the West Bank and Gaza Strip and even in Damascus, where Hamas has an office. Hamas leaders--suddenly thrust...
...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...