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Harvard’s senior director of federal and state relations, Kevin Casey, and William J. Skane, a spokesman for the National Academies, both said in interviews that there have been clear signs that Bush will include initiatives in his agenda to strengthen American research and encourage more Americans to major in science and engineering...
...undertaken to strengthen the administrative structure of the FAS, both to involve more faculty members in planning and priority-setting and to ensure responsiveness to student concerns...
...makes many Latin American diplomats hopeful that Bachelet will play an even more active mediator role between the Bush and Chavez camps. "We have a good relationship with the United States," says Bachelet advisor and trade negotiator Ricardo Lagos Weber, son of the outgoing president. "We will continue to strengthen our cooperation, granted that we preserve our national interests...
...Europeans have arranged a meeting in London next week with the U.S., Russia and China to discuss how to respond to Tehran's move. One option would be for the Security Council to start by requiring Iran to comply with existing IAEA resolutions, and then consider measures to strengthen the IAEA's powers of inspection, although the problem with this scenario is that the U.N. agency cannot operate without the compliance of the host country. Other options may include travel bans on Iranian officials or restrictions on fuel supplies in the country from India-despite being a major oil producer...
...where this takes us: To prevail in a war of ideas, you need to strengthen, burnish, protect, and promote your freedoms, and the democracy that you are wielding as a weapon more powerful than the tyrannies you oppose. You need more democracy; but winning that other war inevitably means less...