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...welcome consequences of the regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI)-three years on the ground and counting-is how the presence of foreigners has opened local eyes to the shameful inadequacy of Honiara's politicians. The nominal Big Men who hop on and off the capital's political merry-go-round cannot deliver for their own communities nor for the nation as a whole. Unlike, for instance, a judge from Suva, a Canberra auditor, a Nuka'alofa constable or a Wellington diplomat-all the quiet, efficient public servants from around the region who have volunteered to help a troubled...
...salable and had a fluid, sophisticated sexiness, a point of view. Everyone said he was crazy, but he went up there and fought his way in like a pit bull, and here we are today." Where they are, says Marc Cooper, managing director at investment bank Peter J. Solomon Company, is in the right place at the right time with the right product. "It's rare for any company to be as successful as Max is. As of late, his broader business team has coalesced, and that has contributed to his success...
...such an agenda and calling the struggle against it "enduringly surreal." Welcome to the disorienting surreality many of us have experienced in trying to figure out why Zionists feel they can lay claim to the Holy Land, which they have not possessed for two millenniums. (The Rev.) Timothy M. Solomon Meadville, Pennsylvania, U.S. The crux of the Middle East crisis is Israel's refusal to vacate the occupied territories. People like Krauthammer were wrong when they advocated attacking Iraq, and they are wrong now in creating the bogey of radical Islam. The problem is closer to home. The imperial hubris...
...King of Rock, Soul and Restraint UNMISSABLE In 2001 Solomon Burke was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Mary J. Blige. Imagine Al Pacino receiving an Oscar from Juliette Lewis, and you have some idea of the moment's hoo-ah! scenery-chewing potential. Burke, known to the soul-music cult as the King of Rock and Soul, once held every note as if it were his last, and on his mid-career albums you might have believed it to be yours too. At 65, he has lost a little breath but gained restraint, and Nashville...
...last summer. But Roberts’ amorous attitude toward his alma mater did not overpower his legal judgment in a high-profile case on campus military recruitment this past year.Roberts’ opinion in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR) upheld the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment, which forces universities to give military recruiters equal access to campuses or give up grants from several federal agencies. Harvard would lose more than $400 million a year.The HLS nondiscrimination policy—adopted in 1979, the same year Roberts received his JD—requires recruiters...