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...President to seem so confident? A good part of it is flawed strategy. Democrats keep hoping that the elections can be framed as a referendum on the Bush policy, and Republicans keep reminding the public that elections are a choice, not a referendum. Last week, in the opening salvo of the 2006 congressional elections, Bush and Rove were reminding voters that the choice would be between the Democratic strategy of "cut and run" and the Republican war against Islamic "fascists," as the President called them. It was clear, yet again, that Bush and Rove would surf the complexities...
...latest salvo in Moulitsas? war on the right is Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics,(www.crashingthegate.com) a primer co-written with Jerome Armstrong on wresting control of the Democratic party away from consultants and D.C. power brokers, a group that Moulitsas refers to as "that clubby elite club." Many of Moulitsas? colleagues in the blog world wonder if Moulitsas isn?t a member of that club himself. He claims to have used the site to funnel over $1 million to Democratic candidates across the country and is enough of a power broker to have...
Apple is finally joining the battle for the living room, having arrived a bit later than rival combatants Microsoft and Sony. Apple fired its first salvo last week when it unveiled its iPod Hi-Fi and Macs with its updated media networking system Bonjour...
...focusing its energy on trying to stop the big drug traffickers. A Western counternarcotics specialist based in Kabul says he expects to see high-profile arrests in the coming months, in what will be the opening salvo against the drug trade's "command and control." Helmand's beleaguered police will get some relief when approximately 3,300 British troops take over for the much smaller U.S. contingent in Lashkar Gah. The reinforcements can't arrive soon enough. After the fighting on the way to Sangin subsided, about 50 policemen took up posts above a road south of town--the spot...
While Harvard was praised last spring for firing the first salvo and taking a leading role, after almost a year Harvard lags far behind other institutions in the scope of its decision. If Harvard is to remain a leader in the field of ethical investing—or an ethical investor at all—the University must establish both a set of ethical investment standards and a proactive system to check that such standards are being...