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...Post, E. J. Dionne Jr. quoted an anonymous Army officer as saying that everything our soldiers accomplish is being undone by Iraqi politicians who "finance and maintain military auxiliary wings" that kill our soldiers. On the Times op-ed page, Captain Luis Carlos Montalvan proposed that "a new set of at least l,400 elite officials jointly selected and vetted by the Iraqi ministries and the coalition forces" form an "anticorruption task force" to eliminate the problem of Iraqi black marketers' selling military supplies to the insurgents...
...paternity within a year of discovering he is not the biological father, but only one forces the courts to consider a child's best interests in every case. The other allows a nonbiological father to get out if he wants to, but if he's the one fighting to maintain parental status, then the court has to consider the child's interests. That's a lot of nuance, but when it comes to determining fatherhood, sometimes an easy answer isn't what's best...
...face, they were relatively unconcerned about geopolitical risks-despite increasing turmoil in the Middle East and the appearance of mounting threats such as a nuclear-armed North Korea. Those polled were more focused on knotty management problems over which they had some control. The executives cited the ability to maintain a common corporate culture as their greatest challenge, followed by understanding local customs and ways of doing business. "Suddenly, companies are having to operate in countries they know less well," Spelman says. "What's clear is that the degree of complexity in managing a business has gone up, and those...
Thus they invested in Congress--the most broadly representative and directly accountable branch of government--the authority to "declare War," to raise and support armies (while specifying that "no Appropriation of Money for that use shall be for a longer term than two years"), to "provide and maintain a Navy" and to summon into federal service, organize, arm and discipline the state militias. But they also anointed the President--theoretically, at least, somewhat insulated from popular whim by the Electoral College--as the "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia...
Some philosophers maintain that solving the problem of consciousness is beyond the reach of human intelligence. This is very odd and, I believe, untrue. It fits a sensible intuition that the mind is something special and different, separable from the brain, but the fact that the intuition is sensible does not make it right...