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...examine the Administration's and Baker's anti-timetable argument more closely. As the thinking goes, the armed groups sowing mayhem in Iraq will lay down their guns as soon as the U.S. fixes a date for withdrawal. Since any reasonable timetable for withdrawal would still preserve some kind of U.S. troop presence for the foreseeable future, Baker and Bush would have you believe that tens of thousands of insurgents, terrorists and militia members are prepared to contain their furies for months, if not years - after which time they will presumably emerge tanned, rested and more bloodthirsty than ever...
...just wanna play!” says Sophie M. Besl ’08.Just as Harvard’s fullbacks are getting ready to suck it up on the AstroTurf, Besl and her band, the Sinister Turns, are getting ready to lay it all out at the tailgate’s first annual Harvard-Yale Battle of the Bands. I’m there, ready to rock and possibly roll.But, as the Talking Heads might ask, “How did I get here?”9:45 a.m.—I’m trucking...
Most accounts of the situation agree that the student refused to leave and, when he lay prone in protest, was shocked by a taser five times. A video of the event, taken by cell phone and circulated on YouTube, has sparked widespread disgust. The officer’s threat to Taser the intervening onlooker demonstrates what is perhaps most shocking about the incident: the wanton and unnecessary use of violence...
...problems, not taking ownership of them. National Security Adviser Steve Hadley told reporters on Air Force One on the way to Estonia that Bush will be a good listener at the meeting. "We're not at the point where the President is going to be in a position to lay out a comprehensive plan at this point," Hadley said. Instead, Republican officials have said, the President plans to announce "a way forward" for Iraq in coming weeks based on input from Congress, an administration-wide review and the Baker commission...
...here, tucked inside a day otherwise focused on reconciliation, may be the first act in the "post-POST-Regensburg" phase of Benedict's papal diplomacy. How clearly can he draw the lines on the question of religious freedom? When will the "frank" public dialogue with Islam recommence? Can he lay out a new vision for a modern secular state - in both the Western and Muslim worlds - that gives due space to faith? And, perhaps just as importantly, can he keep the world's attention? The answers will depend on whether Benedict can strike the right balance between his newfound flexibility...