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Must the amber fields of liberty be watered with the blood of journalists? We say no, and we hope that a higher court swiftly overrules the panel of the Washington D.C. Court of Appeals, which refused to quash the subpoenas of Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper. What is at stake is not the livelihoods of two reporters, or even the success of a marginally important probe into Bush administration leaks, but the continued strength of the free press as an American institution...
...after all, is it not reasonable for critics to attribute more importance to the concrete issues at stake than to those January comments alone? They know that Summers’ policies speak more powerfully than his prose—in the halls of Harvard, at least, if not in the national media. They know, for example, that a decline in female tenure rates from 36 percent to 13 percent over the course of Summers’ term is at least as telling as talk of “intrinsic aptitude...
Fiorina was brought in to drive a stake through that squishy culture's heart. HP expanded into computers in the 1970s, but by the 1990s, its sundial pace had run up against Internet time. The company needed to reposition itself in a new, networked environment. Fiorina grew up within AT&T and its equipment-making spin-off Lucent Technologies, so she was well versed in the dangers of cultural inertia. At Lucent, she had emphasized speed and aggressive sales targets. "Have I taken risks through my whole life? Yes," she told TIME in a 2002 interview. "The risk that...
That may be hard to see right away. This was, after all, supposed to be the year for the Crimson to shake its Beanpot hex, stake its claim to the title “Best in Boston,” then challenge for a national title, or at least advance to the second round of the NCAA tournament...
...Well, the sovereignty, safety and dignity of the Iraqi people are now at stake. So where are the allies? The inaction of the other Arab states-following their obstructionism in calling for a postponement of the elections-has exposed that concern about the welfare of Iraqis as fraudulent. Their concern turns out to be their own narrow, often dynastic interests. Those Arab states are ruled by monarchs and dictators who are practically all Sunni. Iraq is about 60% Shi'ite. A democratic Iraq would inevitably become the Arab world's first Shi'ite-dominated state-a prospect from which...