Word: protractedness
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In fairness to the President, everything-especially the role of the military-changed after Sept. 11, 2001. We may now be at the beginning of a protracted global contest against Islamic radicalism, a conflict that will require more subtlety and sophistication than the planning for the occupation of Iraq. At...
For the moment, a President viewed abroad as a go-it-alone cowboy is looking more like a born-again multilateralist. The potentially important deal that Iran signed with European leaders last week to slow its nuclear program could push Bush to accept a level of engagement with Tehran that...
After the Florida legislature thrust itself last week into the debate over whether Terri Schiavo should be allowed to die, by authorizing Governor Jeb Bush to order the reinsertion of her feeding tube, the acrimonious battle entered a new and possibly protracted round in the courts. But in the court...
Meanwhile, expect the new court battle to be drawn out. Michael is challenging the constitutionality of actions by Bush and the legislature countermanding a court ruling just days earlier that Terri's feeding tube should be removed. Legal scholars predict the reinsertion order will be overturned as an unconstitutional violation...
At last week’s Boston City Council meeting, the opening salvos were shot in what will prove to be a long, protracted but ultimately valuable debate about race and education in Boston Public Schools (BPS). Boston’s famously contentious busing program was a watershed when first...