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...rebuffed by the Speaker," complains a senior Republican aide, who says he likes and respects the Speaker. "His strategy seems to be, 'Well, don't worry about it. We'll blame [Democratic Leader Nancy] Pelosi.' That might work in isolated circumstances, but when your party's numbers start to tank, and people want to see that you can govern, that approach is not a solid...
...nation in which a voter turnout of 60 percent is considered exceptional is not one sufficiently concerned with the health of its democracy, and America’s colleges and universities may be at least partially to blame. The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), a conservative education think tank, suggested as much in its recently released report, entitled “The Coming Crisis in Citizenship: Higher Education’s Failure to Teach America’s History and Institutions.” Although the report uses attention-grabbing language to highlight what it has deemed a failure of higher...
SCORSESE: I have compressed air on a set because of the smoke. I've been wearing it for years because of asthma. It's just compressed air, but it ties you to a tank. It's a pain when you want to talk to the actors...
SHIMON PERES, Israeli Vice Premier, on lessons learned from the war with Hizballah. In a speech to a London think tank, he argued that Israel must re-evaluate its tactics, saying that sustained economic growth may work where "neither force nor diplomacy...
Harvard is the world’s leading university in biotech research, but lags far behind MIT in converting its ideas into marketable technology, according to a study released last week. The study, conducted by the Milken Institute, an economics think tank, ranks Harvard first in terms of the number of biotech papers published and cited—ahead of MIT, which is ranked 21st. However, MIT is much more successful than Harvard in “technology transfer”—converting ideas into applicable technology—and does particularly well in creating startup...