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Washington has openly called for regime change in Iran. The Administration denies it plans to invade; it is hoping Iranians will get sick of their regime and topple it from within. The U.S. has more sway in Iran than one might think. Much of the population is openly enthusiastic about the American way of life. That is especially true of the young, who get a far different message about America from surreptitious viewing of videos and satellite television than from official anti-U.S. diatribes. Every night Iranian youths tune in to four different radio broadcasts beamed...
...country's physicians subscribed to the Hippocratic oath, the ancient moral dictum that guides Western medical workers, they would have to violate it. In China, doctors serve the all-powerful state, and when a professional code of conduct conflicts with the Party line, the latter often holds sway. "Of course it's an ethical problem," says a doctor who participated in Beijing's SARS cover-up. "We want to be honest, but if we don't go along, we can't exist...
...first decades of the 20th century, nature held sway over nurture in most fields. In the wake of World War I, however, three men recaptured the social sciences for nurture: John B. Watson, who set out to show how the conditioned reflex, discovered by Ivan Pavlov, could explain human learning; Sigmund Freud, who sought to explain the influence of parents and early experiences on young minds; and Franz Boas, who argued that the origin of ethnic differences lay with history, experience and circumstance, not physiology and psychology...
...undo his own argument when he says it was Pentagon diplomacy, rather than State Department efforts, that won the U.S. basing rights in Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. But it was the same Defense Department diplomacy, in the form of Paul Wolfowitz's intense direct lobbying, that failed to sway the Turks: Turkey is a "guided" democracy in which the military holds considerable sway. And the Turkish military, despite its closeness to Washington, declined at a crucial moment to advise parliament on how it should vote on Iraq - for reasons that have more to do with the Turkish military being...
...officials still insisted, however, that Saddam was losing command and control of the country. "There is no coherent defense anywhere," said a senior military official on Saturday. But commanders preparing to take Baghdad warned that Saddam's government could still hold powerful sway inside the capital...