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...doubtful.” According to Vali R. Nasr, a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School and senior fellow of the Kennedy School’s Dubai initiative, the possibility of outright attack is “fairly high.” “With each country being tough on the other side, showing a growling, uncompromising face, there is a great chance that either side will overreach,” he said. But Ray Takeyh, a senior fellow on the Council of Foreign Relations, said that Congressional skepticism, President Bush’s low popularity, and international opposition...
Tracking down yearly figures for outgoing transfers from Harvard is tough...
...group to the Persian Gulf last month. He remains a force in White House debates about the conduct of the war, and though he has been forced to retreat in some areas, he has not walked away from the fight. He remains Bush's best messenger when delivering the tough love that Washington spoons out from time to time, as it did two weeks ago when the Administration pushed Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf to take the war on al-Qaeda up a couple of notches...
...nations for the last several years: the fate of Japanese citizens who were abducted by North Korean agents in the 1970s and 1980s. Tokyo insists that there are at least four Japanese still unaccounted for in North Korea. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe - who built his career on his tough stance against Kim Jong Il - has repeatedly insisted that there can be no diplomatic normalization or aid provided as part of any nuclear deal with North Korea unless the abductions are resolved first. That means the safe return of any surviving abductees by Pyongyang or conclusive proof of their deaths...
...caused considerable discomfort in the 73-million member Anglican communion - even among fellow conservatives, some of whom undertook a quiet campaign to change his mind. Meanwhile, a group of conservative Virginia congregations in the Episcopal Church (U.S.A), which belongs to the same Anglican Communion as Akinola, were taking the tough decision to jump the Episcopal ship and become Nigerian congregants because of their unhappiness over Episcopal stances on a number of issues, including the ordination of a gay bishop. But they knew little about the Nigerian legislation. Some had read a story in the Washington Post, and a fairly vague...