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...foreign policy. With regard to Iraq, my position remains what it was from the first. I have never voted for anything having to do with Iraq, nor did I fill out any Iraq-related forms because if you do that kind of thing, sooner or later the form guys show up and try to sell you something like a time-share. A lot of the other candidates are gutlessly desperate not to have a track record on Iraq. Well...
These technologies may become an intimate part of our lives sooner than we think. "It's not so futuristic," says Stanford neuropsychologist Judy Illes, "to imagine an employer able to test for who is a good team player, who a leader or a follower." Before such scans are used, neuroethicists warn, we must understand what they can and cannot do. A device that might be helpful in personnel testing, for example, might not be rigorous enough to be used in a criminal trial, where the standard of proof is higher. That's currently the case with the polygraph. But Farah...
...Administration ready to do a deal? President Bush said that he wanted a deal sooner rather than later, and expressed impatience with the negotiators - not least, his own. And the Democratic leadership said it wanted to put partisanship behind it. But the Administration now needs to make a serious gesture...
...about instructing non-native speakers in English. “It doesn’t happen all that consistently. In some cases, graduate students think that they have quite a bit of time to do it because they don’t expect to teach. Suddenly, they find themselves, sooner than they thought, teaching.” Skocpol cited the Economics Department and “some of the science fields” as having the greatest difficulty in regulating the quality of their non-native English speaking teaching fellows. The committee report, ”Steps to Enhance Teaching...
...learn about the situation on the ground, and based on conversations with soldiers and experts, I think a new strategy for victory supported by additional forces has a good chance of success. If others think the situation hopeless, they should make the case for withdrawal--and presumably for withdrawal sooner rather than later. They should also describe what they think would happen during, and after, our withdrawal--and why that outcome is preferable to trying for victory. The critics tend to say, "It's too late--it won't work--let's leave." Their feelings of disappointment and impatience...