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Back in olden days--in 1974, to be exact--Mr. T. Harding Jones of the Concerned Alumni of Princeton lamented how "coeducation has ruined the mystique and the camaraderies that used to exist" on campus. Admitting girls to Princeton, he predicted, was "going to prove a very unfortunate thing...
...This was to appease his disgruntled followers whose brothers and uncles are the ones behind bars and who feel they have taken an unfair brunt of the surge while former Sunni insurgents are getting paychecks in the Concerned Local Citizens units. Like any good politician, he has to prove he can deliver the goods to his followers - even if he has to go to war for it. With reporting by Brian Bennett, Bobby Ghosh, Abigail Hauslohner and Mark Kukis
...Union, but they don't have much to show for this," says Hakan Altinay, director of Istanbul's Open Society Institute. "In the next six months, the right thing to do would be to launch a hearts-and-minds campaign to win over society as a whole, to truly prove to everyone that they are democrats. That they are genuinely as much for the rights of Kurdish nationalists, gays or Christian missionaries, as they are for their own." If they do this convincingly, Altinay says, it could affect the trial outcome...
...Many Democrats still worry that the Treasury plan could prove a preemptive anti-regulatory trap - hardly the first time Bush has pulled off such a gambit. On fuel efficiency standards, Bush and the auto industry insisted on holding out against tough new restrictions until it became clear that the House and Senate could produce a veto-proof majority. At that point, Bush and the industry backed lesser standards, which eventually became law. More recently, Bush intervened in mid-March to soften new anti-ozone regulations after the EPA had concluded that tough new standards were necessary...
...Delafon says it already has. "The Socialist opposition is already reminding people of Sarkozy's campaign comment that he didn't favor additional French forces because he couldn't see how it would be 'decisive'," Delafon notes, adding that few analysts see how a modest reinforcement could possibly prove "decisive" now. "This is a political move following through on Sarkozy's pledge to improve Franco-American cooperation. Making a political decision on a military matter, and without a clear military strategy for victory behind it, carries very significant political risks: The French public may sour on an Afghanistan going from...