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...there were, let’s say, a City Councillor running, nobody outside Cambridge knows who they are,” Winters said. “Over a longer time scale, someone relatively unknown in the rest of the district would have a little more time to buddy-buddy up to all the people you need to network with. In the short term, they have no time to do that. They’re invisible in the short term...
...detainees held by the U.S. at Guantánamo Bay solves one political problem but creates another. In the short term, it neutralizes the GOP talking point that Obama was putting the closure of the detention facility ahead of national security by sending Yemenis home. But it presents a longer-term challenge of how to win the battle to close the facility, which has been a key part of the GOP's strategy to undermine Obama from his earliest days in office...
...report as rumor, calling it part of the "psychological war" being waged against Iran by the West. "The report is baseless. A diplomat returns to the country when his mission is finished in another country," Ramin Mehmanparast, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, told the Reuters news agency. "Sometimes they stay longer in the country where they served as diplomats for various reasons, including waiting for the end of the school semesters for their children...
Tripsas' violation follows a string of ethics violations involving freelance writers. According to Hoyt's Jan. 2 column, Joshua Robinson is no longer working for the organization after allegedly presenting himself as a Times reporter to obtain free plane tickets. Mike Albo was also let go after accepting a free trip to Jamaica. Hoyt's Dec. 12 column indicated that freelancer Suzy Buckley's Nov. 22 review of Miami destinations included a restaurant co-owned by a former boyfriend...
...beginning of the 1990s, simply getting the two parties that had spent years trying to kill each another to sit down and talk was a breakthrough. But after two decades of conversation, talking is no longer an indicator of progress toward ending the conflict. As Gheit's comment implies, sitting Netanyahu down with Abbas for "final status" talks risks simply confirming the belief widely held among Abbas aides that no deal is possible with the current Israeli government. (See the top 10 news stories...