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...single announcement or a series of speeches about helping Iraq make progress toward governing, sustaining and defending itself - the White House's three-part goal. Administration officials have begun saying they have no intention of "outsourcing" their Iraq policy, making it clear they will put their own stamp on any new U.S. plan rather than simply accept Baker's findings in toto. One close Administration adviser says White House officials "don't want to make appear as if they have to sign on to whatever the Baker commission comes up with - they may not agree with it in its entirety...
Harvard’s next president must actively exercise his or her influence in the hiring process. That means viewing hiring committees not as a rubber stamp but as a final hurdle. It also means weakening structural barriers that stand in the way of improving teaching quality and scholastic diversity, even if that means confrontation with faculty who would much rather hire within their own departments and specialties unimpeded. Too much is at stake to blindly acquiesce...
...dominated by simple, instant-gratification exercises like titillating nickelodeon peep shows, or their direct descendents, coin-operated video game arcade machines. Before long, certain producers—whether silent film’s D. W. Griffith or Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto—always come to lend their personal stamp to high-profile projects, and the level of specialization and differentiation in the market grows quickly. In the ensuing fragmentation, everything from ambient drone to hip-hop anthems enter into play.While “Gears of War” itself is hardly a masterpiece of subtlety—most...
...attract additional foreign investment in everything from factories to petrochemical plants, fueling job growth. (In the first 10 months of this year, foreign direct investment in Vietnam was estimated at $6.5 billion, surpassing the $6.1 billion total for all of last year.) "The WTO is sort of the stamp of approval that many, many large companies have been waiting for," says Tim Tucker, country manager for Ford Vietnam, which has an assembly plant outside Hanoi. "They are just going to flood into this country...
...hill overlooking a Safeway supermarket, the very mint that produced, for reasons never definitively established, just 24 dimes in 1894, the fabled 1894-S dimes, one of which sold at auction last year for $1.3 million.) At one point I also made a sustained attempt at a stamp collection. I still have my first-day issue of the three-cent stamp commemorating Teddy's Roosevelt's home at Sagamore Hill, which today is worth about what it was then...