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...Even with Mbeki’s removal as South Africa’s president and subsequent loss of clout, the situation has not improved. The SADC as a group has proven to support Mugabe, as it “resolved” the Mugabe-Tsvangirai agreement at its recent summit by suggesting the co-management of home affairs that so clearly favors Zanu-PF. The SADC compromise places all enforcement—army, national defense, and now police, under home affairs—at the access of Mugabe, a brutal dictator. South Africa’s new president, Kgalema Motlanthe...
...Press, citing unnamed Obama advisers, reported Monday that the President-elect plans to put forward proposals for a new court to handle some Guantánamo cases. But many legal thinkers disagree with such an approach, arguing that all such cases should be prosecuted in federal courts, which have proven effective in many instances. Also, many argue that new national-security courts would likely face the same difficulties as the ongoing Guantánamo tribunals, which have floundered because of procedural snafus while drawing hundreds of constitutional challenges. "Lots of people are opposed, and for many good reasons," Katyal said...
...week after election day this year, the non-believers have been proven wrong. Barack Obama, the prophetic voice of hope crying in the partisan political wilderness, has reinvigorated Americans’ interest and engagement in the electoral process and especially inspired the once-lukewarm faith of the youth. And, like many converts, these youth—especially at Harvard—have expressed their new-found creed with an excess of zeal...
...precisely Summers’s style of intellectual provocation that is needed in Washington today. The U.S. needs somebody at the helm of its economic policy who will ask the right questions and encourage those around him to offer original, creative thinking. Throughout his career, Summers has more than proven that he is ready and able to do both. The fact that his career has already been marked by such brilliance and achievement makes his case all the more compelling. He is a winner of the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal, a former Chief Economist of the World Bank...
...published earlier this year, examines how candidates try to attract voters who agree with one candidate on some issues, and the other candidate on others. Given last night’s results, Obama’s use of technology in his advertising campaign seems to have proven more effective. “Obama had an advantage in that he was able to use new technology in a creative way,” Hillygus said after her talk, which was part of the weekly Berkman Luncheon Series. Obama used his fundraising advantage over Republican candidate John McCain to buy advertisements...