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...much of a problem for us--it’s what they represent and how we think they might grow and make their mark in the years ahead." The fellowship program enables working journalists to spend a year at Harvard pursuing a specific field of study, participating in various seminars, and attending special events. “The [fellows] are specialists in covering certain areas of the world or the country, and Harvard has a lot of experts and researchers in their field who would love to work with them,” Giles said. The fellows’ chosen...
Next, the alliance tried the South Bend, Ind., system, which had accepted ads from various religious groups and so had little choice but to take the atheists' ads. While no protests attended the acceptance, South Bend, home to the University of Notre Dame, now has a moratorium on new noncommercial ads, until a formal policy is written. Now appearing on South Bend's buses: "You can be good without...
...that, according to the Secretary of Defense, is the rationale for his new Pentagon budget; Bush had funded his wars outside the usual budget process, via so-called supplemental appropriations. Gates has included the war funding in his base budget, "so the programs will be institutionalized and the various services will fight for them." He insists that he is not abandoning the fancy hardware and future gizmos that his predecessors and Congress loved. "The things we've cut," he told me, "wouldn't have been in the budget even if we had $50 billion more to spend. They were programs...
...have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up." (New York Times...
...Members of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) voted this week to form a political party and contest Thailand's next general election. The head of the still-unnamed party is expected to be movement leader Sondhi Limthongkul, 61, a formerly bankrupt media magnate who has accrued various enemies in a long public career. Sondhi was wounded in an assassination attempt in April that he blamed on corrupt politicians and military men. Millions of viewers regularly watch his satellite television channel ASTV, which openly advocates for the PAD and could provide the new party with a potentially huge voter...