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Rumsfeld has given some of the Republican right's most outspoken (and forsaken) hawks a place to nest. Among them: former Vice President Dan Quayle, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and ex-CIA and Pentagon boss James Schlesinger. True, there are also centrist Republican members, like Henry Kissinger. But the board has an undeniably hard-nosed tilt: seven of the 31 members have ties to the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Previous boards had at least a few members with views sharply opposed to the incumbent Administration--Perle was on the board through Clinton's two terms--but this...
...movie aiming at romantic refinement is to avoid being either pushy or inert. There Possession fails, certainly in the modern half of the story. Actors preen overmuch; Paltrow again imitates Englishness by sucking in her suave cheeks; Eckhart (a LaBute regular) works too hard at being the outspoken American abroad. Gabriel Yared's music is forced to do the actors' emoting for them--a sure sign the director doesn't trust the story to carry the feeling...
TIME: Where's home? SHANKAR: I feel like I've always had three homes - London, California and New Delhi. Moving to America at 11 meant that a lot of my personality was molded there - I'm not very traditional, I'm outspoken - but it was a difficult adjustment...
Askar Enazy, a professor of international law in Riyadh and an outspoken critic of the regime, complains that the clerics "are allowed to run rampant. The al-Saud believe if they oppose them, it will undermine their own legitimacy as rulers. They had the opportunity to crush them many times before but chose not to." Mohammed al Odad is a government minister in Abha, but he is dismayed. "The fundamentalists have total control of the masses," he says. "It gets worse and worse." Parents say they are fed up with the Wahhabist school curriculum, which rears students on a diet...
Though it comes at a time when University President Lawrence H. Summers has been outspoken in his support for cadets despite his and Harvard’s opposition to the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on homosexuals, the move represents a change in the ROTC course credit list and not any shift in Harvard position...