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Members of the administration proposed three new scheduling options that would allow for 15 minutes between classes. The one proposal discussed at length features 75-minute class blocks, giving professors the leeway of using between 55 and 75 minutes of this time frame...
...Benjamin Wittes, a Brookings scholar of legal standards in the war on terror, said that new President would be wise to maintain some leeway beyond the Army document. "The right answer here is not for the executive branch to have zero latitude in the highest stakes interrogations," Wittes said. "And you don't have to be Dick Cheney to believe that." In the past, members of the intelligence community have also argued for keeping some approved methods of interrogation classified, so as not to tip off enemies to what they might possibly face in the future...
...plan would trim the number of basic requirements for concentrators from six to four, which members of the department said would allow students more leeway to design their own curriculum. Undergraduate advising would also be beefed up under the plan...
...table calls for the U.S. to withdraw its troops by the end of 2011 and gives the Iraqi government a much greater say in what U.S. troops do until then. Opponents of the deal warn that the government has signed secret codicils that give the U.S. far greater leeway than advertised and may keep American troops in Iraq indefinitely. Ajil Abdel-Hussein, an MP loyal to the Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, suggested the government was trying to lay the ground for a "new [U.S.] occupation of Iraq." (See pictures of U.S. troops' five years in Iraq...
...assuming such a breakdown is averted - and recent government actions in the U.S. and Europe make that a plausible assumption - economic fundamentals, and productivity growth in particular, are going to matter a lot. Strong productivity growth makes inflation less of a threat, giving the Federal Reserve more leeway in battling recession. And because it enables more economic growth down the road, it could make it far easier to pay off the giant debts the Federal Government is incurring to save the banking system and the economy...