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...excerpts I have seen from the novel and from its appendix suggest that Crichton has an extremely superficial acquaintance with climate science and that most of his assertions about the subject are wrong,” says John P. Holdren, the Heinz professor of environmental policy at the Kennedy School of Government...
Blacks typically score lower than whites on standardized tests. But if University President Larry H. Summers were to suggest that the under-representation of blacks on University faculties is due to “innate differences,” he would justifiably be dubbed a racist and most likely be forced to resign. But when Summers, at an economic symposium a few weeks ago, explained the dearth of female faculty in terms of biological differences between men and women, he got away relatively unscathed; while he received flack from the media, many people defended Summers for waging the good fight...
...Mahmoud Abbas owes his presidency in no small part to the backing of the al-Aqsa Martyr?s Brigade, who facilitated his election by persuading the more popular imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti to withdraw from the race. (The most authoritative Palestinian polls suggest Barghouti would have beaten Abbas by four percentage points.) Many of their grassroots members are also the rank-and-file of Abbas?s uniformed Palestinian security services, on whom he would have to rely in any crackdown. Hamas, meanwhile, has moved into the mainstream of Palestinian politics, and in recent municipal elections in Gaza its candidates...
...groups resumed their campaign of attacks, mainly against Iraqi security forces, killing 12 in an ambush in Kirkuk. Even so, the vote jump-started a first chapter in democracy: before the ballots were even counted, politicians in Baghdad were already engaging in the ancient art of dealmaking. Early trends suggest that the so-called Sistani List--a slate of religious Shi'ites and secular parties that has the backing of Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani--has won a majority in the 275-member Transitional National Assembly. Vying for second place are a unified Kurdish list and the secular list...
Police reports and interviews with victims suggest that Vaghar’s plot was more extensive than The Crimson first reported on Jan. 12, and that she frequently changed her persona and story...