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...reporters outside the Straight Talk Express was thick and vaguely hostile, tossing repeated questions about the few paragraphs in the speech that mentioned the war. In what might be the single most depressing understatement of the year, McCain noted it "has not gone well." But anyone expecting a shift in policy was disappointed. Rather, he reiterated the points that he had previewed to Jon Stewart the night before - that we made mistakes getting into the war, that we shouldn't make the same mistakes again and well, there was a certain lacuna in his remarks...
...selection removes a key institutional check on his party's agenda, which is likely to increase friction with the military. The choice also represents a broader shift in political power away from the secularist elite in Turkey's coastal cities and towards the conservative Islamic heartland. Gul himself hails from Central Anatolia, the Turkish equivalent of America's Bible Belt. His party's ascendance over the past five years poses a clear challenge not only to the military, but to Turkey's old secular establishment. It's a challenge based on a democratic mandate from the electorate...
...time for organizations to adjust to a forced migration to a new location. By choosing to locate the hub of student group space in the Quad, Harvard administrators should have realized that it would take time and persuasion for students to overcome the substantial psychological barriers to such a shift. Executed largely without input from the groups involved, the SOCH transition process was widely perceived by students as an act of administrative fiat. That is not to say that there are no legitimate reasons to concentrate student space in a single location or benefits to the move. The new freshman...
...battle for Americans’ hearts and purse strings, hawks still have an edge. But not for much longer. One more Katrina, and instant energy independence will hardly be the most pressing raison d’être for stringent energy standards. In the meantime, the concern should shift from one of barrels of oil imported to tons of CO2 emitted...
...patrons included a “good mix” of undergraduates and recent graduates. The day after the pub’s grand opening festivities, Corker was speechless—he had lost his voice after staying the entire length of the pub’s maiden shift from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. “One of my favorite moments was overhearing the following comment: ‘I have never seen half the people here—this is exactly what Harvard needs!’” Corker wrote in an e-mailed statement...