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...resolve will hold up in the face of expected troop losses and further bombing attacks across the northwest and in major cities; security is being beefed up outside government buildings, Western targets and civilian areas. There is also fear that moving against the militants in one area may simply prompt them to relocate to other regions. Nor does the army have the luxury of fighting on a single front: battles continue in pockets in Swat and across the tribal areas...
...option but to play the diplomatic game, because its "or else" options are so limited. Russia and China remain deeply skeptical of the case for sanctions and are unlikely to approve measures with significant bite. What's more, Israeli and American hawks have long argued that no sanctions will prompt a regime that has invested so much in developing a nuclear program to simply reverse course; rather, they see the choices as boiling down to one between military strikes and accepting a nuclear-armed Iran. But military strikes are opposed by the Pentagon for two reasons: even in the best...
...revolution in 1979. For another, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is probably in on the open secret about economic sanctions: they don't really work. Attempts to economically isolate troublemaking nations are the leech treatments of international diplomacy: traditional cure-alls that, though well-intentioned, rarely force regime change or prompt significant policy shifts, particularly when done unilaterally - and often a greater hardship for the citizens living under these regimes than for the leaders. (Read TIME's interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...
...know—so soon” to fill vacant deanships, said Classics Department administrator Teresa Wu.After less than a year on the job, former FAS Dean of Administration and Finance Brett C. Sweet left Harvard for a top post at Vanderbilt University in late July, prompting Smith to start a national search for a replacement. Deena Giancotti, associate dean for finance, has temporarily taken over the finance-related responsibilities that typically fell under Sweet’s purview, according to Gorodentsev.Gorodentsev herself was in a state of transition. With Forst slated to leave for Goldman Sachs, she said...
...fact that what the Iran threat represents is a changed game; Israel isn't the only regional player to benefit from the perception that it wields a nuclear deterrent. The danger of a regional arms race creates a new and compelling fear - Arabs with nukes - that may prompt Israel to re-examine its assumptions. Still, having developed whatever nuclear capability it may possess precisely in order to give itself a strategic trump card free of dependence on allies, Israel will not easily surrender its ambiguous weapon...