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...that Kirby’s departure was orchestrated by the president may use today’s meeting—and the six that follow—to criticize Summers in a full Faculty forum. “I think a lot of people have sort of crossed the Rubicon on this chapter,” said one senior faculty member, referring to unhappiness with Summers stemming from Kirby’s departure. But FAS administrators and some senior Faculty members are hopeful that the review will progress in the coming weeks. “I think the review will...
...believe that we are today crossing the Rubicon in South Africa. There is no turning back." That was State President P.W. Botha's assessment last week, but hardly anyone outside the South African government could find much evidence to support it. Speaking in the port city of Durban before the Natal provincial congress of his ruling National Party, Botha described his remarks as a "manifesto for the future of our country," ostensibly laying out guideposts for significant change in the racially divided nation. But rather than a hoped for watershed, Botha's speech was an international and domestic disappointment, creating...
...entire industry into bad habits. Says the Hindu's Ram: "Other people are bound to follow. And while we'll fight, it'll be hard. It's an odd situation where we don't report what people are talking about." Media commentator Dilip Cherian agrees: "We've crossed the Rubicon. This is the beginning of the tabloidization of the Indian media. It's not so much whether it's good or bad. The important thing to grasp is that it's happening...
...other hand, it just may be enough to topple Saddam without having to bomb Iraq and march into Baghdad. "We've embarked on steps that help us prepare for a military option inside Iraq," says the State Department official, "but that don't constitute a crossing of the Rubicon. None of these steps are irreversible, and all of them could help promote the longer-term destabilization of Saddam's government...
However, loved or respected, what will ultimately decide the fate of Serbian reforms are to a large extent which politicians get power. Serbia has indeed passed the Rubicon of democracy, but the current elections will to a large extent determine its pace. Will Serbia be an example of less successful transitions and stay in the East-West limbo of the past, outside of the major European streams for quite some time yet; or will it self-confidently get to work and catch up with the rest of Europe...