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...answer is that Bush doesn't really see the problems of 2002 in the same stark terms as he does the problems of 2001. Asked in July about the accounting procedures at Harken Energy, a Texas oil company on whose board he once served, Bush said, "In the corporate world, sometimes things aren't exactly black and white when it comes to accounting procedures." It may be that this is where you can see and hear the workings of Bush's mental circuitry: where he has experience and knowledge and a sense of the players and the pressures they live...
...more limited and his advisers are divided, he is running greater risks and relying on a moral code that almost everyone believes will be difficult to maintain. The Republican stalwarts who spoke to Time were quick to say they did not want Bush to abandon his preference for the stark choice; they just argued that he should do less of it abroad and more of it at home. Failing to do so, they warned, could endanger his chances at a second term...
America's attention may have moved on from Afghanistan to Iraq, but Thursday's violence in Kabul and Kandahar is a stark reminder that its work there is far from over. A car bomb explosion in the capital killed at least 10 people, while a few hours later in Kandahar, President Mohammed Karzai survived an assassination attempt by a shooter in Afghan army uniform. These were hardly isolated incidents: Thursday's bombing was the eighth in the capital in less than a month, and Karzai's deputy, Haji Abdul Qadir, had been assassinated there in July - prompting U.S. personnel...
...relationships, kids and his ennui (the faithful shrugged). Then in '95 he put out an album of folk songs, The Ghost of Tom Joad. It won a Grammy for best contemporary folk album, but it felt more like a Woody Guthrie tribute than a Springsteen record. The songs were stark and compelling, but the old optimism was gone. The characters of Tom Joad lived on the fringes of American life, and they died quickly and violently. "I just wasn't sure of my rock voice," says Springsteen. "I wasn't sure of what it sounded like or what...
...month that biotechnology stocks have collectively lost two-thirds of their value in the past two years. The University of California at San Francisco, which has forged close ties with the biotech industry in California, has seen collaborations with companies for research drop by nearly half from 2000. Such stark figures should give Summers pause before he starts intertwining Harvard research with the work of biotech companies. Indeed, Harvard has always been hesitant to associate itself too closely with for-profit companies. Cambridge-based Vertex Phamaceuticals, which includes former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles...