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Batiste, it turns out, wasn't the only one holding his fire. Over the past several weeks, the extent of the military's unhappiness with Rumsfeld has exploded into what is already being called the Revolt of the Generals. Half a dozen retired generals have used newspaper opinion pages--and in the case of Lieut. General Greg Newbold, TIME magazine (see TIME.com)--to break months of silence and call for Rumsfeld's head. That in turn has rekindled the debate about whether the Iraqi invasion was ill-conceived in the first place, and, if so, who is to blame. President...
...Boykin flap unfolded, Christian activists rushed to Boykin's defense. Evangelical email armies were pressed into service and encouraged to fire in the direction of the White House. After a few days of silence on Boykin, Bush told pool reporters on Air Force One, "He didn't reflect my opinion." Rumsfeld would go no further, pleading that the sound on the videotapes of Boykin's incendiary remarks was too scratchy to be understood. In his dustup with Warner, Rumsfeld went so far as to say it was Boykin who requested a Pentagon probe--perhaps so evangelicals wouldn't blame...
...would like to switch to a republic - one more percentage point than in 1969. "This is the most stable measure in British polling," says Robert Worcester, who presented the poll to palace staff. No matter how you break down the respondents - young, old, ethnic minorities, Londoners, non-Christians, local opinion leaders, readers of the Sun tabloid, readers of the "quality" dailies - no more than 25% of any group wants to dump the royals. Even after a decade of tumult for the Windsors, 68% of Britons want to retain them. "That's astonishing," says Sunder Katwala, head of the Fabian Society...
...Israel interests. Summers’ defended the Kennedy School’s handling of the situation—the school has not removed the paper from its website and has allowed Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz to post a critical response. But Summers would not offer an opinion on the paper’s merits. “It seems to me that on academic freedom grounds it wouldn’t be appropriate for me to try to pass judgment on scholarly papers outside my field,” he said. “Obviously, the paper...
David A. Rios ’07, a DJ for RH, WHRB’s underground rock program, has an opinion about the station’s mission that is as large (but not nearly as fuzzy) as his wildly-unkempt hair: “All the departments have the same goal: to play music geared to a niche…to have people listen to good music that they won’t hear somewhere else...