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...really see nuclear policy as a spearhead issue for challenging the entire approach to foreign affairs, which are imperialist, militarized and elitist,” she said...
After submitting an “ambitious” proposal aiming to bring Harvard to the forefront of major research on Latino studies last April, a leading Latino studies professor has received $75,000 from University Provost Steven E. Hyman to spearhead an interfaculty initiative on “Immigration and Well-being...
...Given Yang's newfound notoriety, he fits the bill. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il selected the 39-year-old entrepreneur to spearhead an experiment in social and economic engineering in the town of Sinuiju on the border with China. Yang was to be Chief Executive of a free-trade zone with its own laws and elections. The project is meant to lure industry to the destitute communist country, helping it join the modern world and possibly get off U.S. President George W. Bush's hit list. China's close ties to North Korea make Yang's predicament...
...they outthought themselves. Their three first-round games were almost identical. Les Bleus dominated the midfield, stringing together long sequences of complex passes that would look impossible even on a coach's drawing board. These were designed to draw opposition defenders and create spaces for David Trezeguet, the French spearhead, to slip through. When the other side refused to come out and play, the French fell into their own trap: their defenders stepped up to help the midfielders, leaving behind huge gaps. Uruguay was unable to make much of these openings, but Senegal got a goal, Denmark two?while France...
This year Pelosi and DeLay will be battling each other not just on the House floor but also across the country, as they spearhead their parties' respective campaigns for control of the House. It promises to be a bruising fight. The Democrats need to pick up only six seats to take back the House, and history is on their side: the party of the President--even a popular one like George W. Bush--typically loses House seats during a midterm election. Bush's high poll numbers have so far created "no coattail effect," admits Virginia Representative Tom Davis, who chairs...