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...power of the technology hasn't waned. "Everything we learned about stem cells tells us this was a really powerful approach," he says. "It would be a great shame if we let it wither and just go away." Melton, for one, is determined not to let that happen...
...repeat of cataclysms like the one in Rwanda, when the world watched but did little, R2P enshrines in international law the justification and obligation for intervention. A nation forfeits its sovereignty if it commits or is unable to prevent massive human-rights abuses on its soil. Should that happen, other nations can take action--using peaceful means such as diplomacy or sanctions or, if all else fails, military force--through the U.N. Security Council. Though the intent is not to replace a country's government, invoking R2P serves as a censure of it. Its message: You are doing an unacceptably...
Assuming the stimulus measure is passed - in private, even top GOP aides believe it will happen by mid-February - Summers says Obama will push next to stabilize the banks and the housing market. The Administration is weighing approaches that range from buying up banks' bad assets or guaranteeing the solvency of banks that hold them to taking an even larger ownership stake in the institutions and then pouring more cash directly into them. None of the options, Obama Administration officials admit, are ideal...
Liberals, meanwhile, are looking to swiftly roll back the policies of what they viewed as an antiwomen Bush Administration. But now they may have to wait a few weeks for that to happen. As one progressive policy analyst noted, inserting the Medicaid provision into the stimulus package "was kind of like bringing up marriage on the third date. You know it's going to come up eventually, so why start a fight at the very beginning, before you've gotten anywhere...
...said Blagojevich, who called the proceedings an "improper impeachment not based on evidence" and hinted that he could call witnesses who might provide "political embarrassment to members of my party in Washington, D.C." At the end, he defiantly warned of "the dangerous precedent of removing me ... If it can happen to me, it can happen to any governor ... it can happen to any citizen." And then he left without taking questions...