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...including the constitutional power to remain president for life. This is the opposition’s first major electoral victory since Chavez came to power. Federico Andrés Ortega Sosa, a second-year student at the Kennedy School of Government from Caracas, Venezuela, said the election results might signal “a momentum shift,” since the Venezuelan president has been enjoying “victory after victory” since he was elected in 1998. He also said some could interpret the defeat as proof that the Venezuelan government is indeed a democracy...
Stephanie Losee: What this proves is that a leader's personal conduct is more important than any success he has in leading the organization. And I think that is a problem in our society right now. What the board did when they fired him was signal that all of his wins as head of the Red Cross, the way in which he has turned around the organization, the six months of good notices that he had received, not to mention the 18-month investment that the board made in the hiring process trying to find just the right person...
...report may signal progress in the study of how age-related illnesses can be treated—an area where breakthroughs are rare. “It should be useful to have a published scientific study in an area having no shortage of enthusiasts yet thus far lacking in convincing evidence,” chemistry professor Stuart L. Schreiber, who teaches Science B-47, “Molecules of Life,” wrote in an e-mail...
This is one of those little pop-cultural shifts--football overtakes baseball, salsa defeats ketchup--that signal bigger changes: here, in the relationship between the community and the individual. In a traditional Christmas story, the larger holiday is a social good. It uplifts the suicidal, raises every voice in Whoville, renders peace between Macy and Gimbel. Those who reject it--Scrooge, the Grinch--must be forced into its tinseled embrace. Community is all, as in Wonderful Life's blend of World War II patriotism and New Deal populism: your money's in the Kennedy house and Mrs. Macklin's house...
Shaking his hand could send a signal to Israelis that there is a partner for peace. We are there to support Mahmoud Abbas, the Syrians and the Lebanese to get their territory. We are there in all honesty, if peace is achieved, to pursue that what was promised in the Arab peace plan. That is normalization, after the peace. We are not going to be party to gestures that could be interpreted as normalization before peace is attained...