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...Harvard Political Union astutely recognized the lack of dialogue about religion, and held the event for this reason. As Shankar G. Ramaswamy ’11, chair of the HPU, noted, “We decided to have this event because it’s the type of matter that students might be reluctant to strike up a conversation about, because of the controversy around...
...reality, Obama (and, for that matter, the Clintons) has a long history of paying public homage to the leadership and political skills of Reagan, even while disagreeing with his policies...
...Speaking in Pakistan on Jan. 22, Defense Secretary Robert Gates described the Taliban as part of Afghanistan's "political fabric," dispelling any notion that the movement - no matter how noxious - can be eliminated by force of arms. And General Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander on the ground, told the Financial Times in an interview published on Monday that "a political solution ... is the inevitable outcome" and "the right outcome" of the surge of 30,000 new U.S. troops into Afghanistan this year. "As a soldier," McChrystal said, "my personal feeling is that there's been enough fighting. What I think...
...monitors to sensitive polling districts. Sri Lanka has a well-established, compulsory national identity-card system used to verify voter rolls, and each candidate is allowed four representatives at each counting station. Hettiarachchi has appealed to the police and armed forces to uphold the law and maintain order, no matter what the result. "It is a crucial election, and their impartiality will matter a lot," he says...
...immediate aftermath of the election is likely to be tense no matter what the outcome, and the winner will have very little time to bask in the glory. He will lead a country battered by a bloody finale to the war and a tottering economy, and a people in desperate need of reconciliation...