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...hard enough to kill Saddam. There was payback to be had. But never was Bush's adolescent petulance more obvious than in his decision to ignore the Baker-Hamilton report and move in the exact opposite direction: adding troops and employing counterinsurgency tactics inappropriate to the situation on the ground. "There was no way he was going to accept [its findings] once the press began to portray the report as Daddy's friends coming to the rescue," a member of the Baker-Hamilton commission told me. As with Bush's invasion of Iraq, the decision to surge was made unilaterally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Administration's Epic Collapse | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...sense, it was familiar ground for Kennedy, whose spot near the court's ideological center often makes his vote determinative in tight cases. But the decision's high-profile rebuke to the Bush Administration makes you wonder whether Kennedy is shifting left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Drifters | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...force him to do so through legislation. But we oppose politically mandated timetables nonetheless. Let there be no mistake: America must withdraw from Iraq. But planning for such a move must be military in nature, flexible, and amenable to changes depending upon quickly-changing dynamics on the ground. Though the Bush administration has no exit strategy, neither do the Democrats—they simply have a date. The game of political brinksmanship being played by Congressional leadership and the President is a dangerous one; the lives of American soldiers hang in the balance. Though the pressure of the 2008 elections...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Don’t Set a Date | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

It’s the end of the road for Littauer Library.On June 8, the library on the ground floor of the Littauer building will close to users as it prepares to become the home of art books displaced by the renovation of the Fogg Museum. Many of the staff and services now located in Littauer will move to the first floor of Lamont Library, which will undergo renovation this summer to accommodate the change. Littauer’s holdings, which contain materials on economics and government as well as many historical labor papers, will mostly be placed...

Author: By David Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Littauer Library To Close This Summer | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...baseball and softball squads both faced an insurmountable challenge today: the weather. Conditions prevented either game from taking place this afternoon. The baseball game was rescheduled after it was postponed yesterday due to both snow and rain. Today it was the ground rather than the sky that made the impact, as the field became simply unplayable. Both sets of diamond dwellers were slated to take the field at 3 p.m. yesterday, baseball at O’Donnell Field against Holy Cross and softball in Chestnut Hill, Mass., against Boston College. Neither school has announced a makeup date for the game...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SPORTS BRIEF: Baseball and softball forced back to benches as both games postponed | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

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