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...future. The White House says that there can be no Iraqi government until there is a new constitution. It is a good thing our Founding Fathers didn’t have to follow that rule. A constitution can, and will, emerge as the political life of the country takes shape, just as it did for America in the 1780s. We need an interim Iraqi government...
...solitary practice, an attempt to take an internal impression and document it. Regardless of the subject—ourselves, our families, strangers, nature—the process of creating turns our focus relentlessly inward: to pinpoint, as precisely as possible, the dimensions of this impression, the color and the shape, so that we can faithfully reproduce it and our creations ring true. The more I thought about it, the more it seemed that all this time I’ve spent staring at my computer screen, trying to coax unwieldy words into delicate prose, all amounted to variations...
...Europe be built?" Avery asked at the appeal hearing last December. "We will undermine [the university] tactically, financially, with the press, with the tourists. Cambridge will become known as the animal-cruelty capital of the world." A new animal-rights group, SPEAC (Stop Primate Experiments at Cambridge), took shape over the summer. Denying any formal connection to SHAC, speac announced that it holds the entire university culpable in the matter of the primate lab. To apply pressure for the abandonment of the project, SPEAC began leafleting, organizing demos and targeting university departments with letters and periodic e-mail bombardments. "This...
...balloons in the shape of a red ribbon,” said Pinto-Wong. “Each balloon represents one of the 342 people who die from AIDS every hour...
...goals Summers should seek to provide additional centralized administrative support and budgetary assistance to interested students and faculty. This type of support can greatly help create incentives and encourage additional inter-faculty course development and student affairs efforts between the various Harvard schools. Such leadership can advance ideas to shape U.S. foreign policy—that help to solve complex problems in the developing world...