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...event will launch the Harvard LIVE! program co-sponsored by the student-run concert commission and the Office for the Arts at Harvard...
...enigma. His powers are limited by Iran's political structure, in which ultimate authority over matters of state rests with the country's Supreme Leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. The regime has threatened to retaliate against American interests "in every part of the world" if the U.S. were ever to launch a military strike against Iran. But Ahmadinejad has also made rhetorical gestures of conciliation, sending an open letter to George W. Bush and inviting the U.S. President to a televised discussion about "the ways of solving the problems of the international community." (Bush ruled it out last week...
Could Israel launch an attack on its own to cripple Iran's nuclear weapons program? It certainly has the motivation. Tel Aviv is even more worried than Washington about the prospect of Iranian nukes - those bombs might one day be loaded onto missiles that can easily reach Israel. And the Israelis have previously shown that they have the will: In 1981, Israeli warplanes set back Iraq's nuclear weapons program with a bombing raid against the Osirak nuclear reactor...
...Israeli attack on Iran is fraught with as many potential pitfalls as an American strike would be. Seth Jones, a Middle East analyst for RAND, has extensively studied possible Israeli military operations against Iran and none of them leave him particularly sanguine. Israel does have conventional missiles it could launch from land or from ships and diesel-powered submarines, but their capabilities would be limited for this type of mission in terms of range and accuracy. The most likely weapons Israel would use, Jones believes, would be its American-made F-15 and F-16 warplanes that have "long-range...
...THIS CHAIR IS JUST RIGHT Former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie kicks off a p.r. tour in support of his not-especially-tell-all memoir, Winning Right. The launch- party guest list includes Terry McAuliffe, former Democratic National Committee chairman--whose own book, What a Party, is due to be released in January. That book's tell-all proportions are unknown, but attendees overhear McAuliffe boasting that his book is "much thicker...