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...this practice from an early stage of his career. In 1784 he wrote to James Madison about the Barbary depredations, saying, "We ought to begin a naval power, if we mean to carry on our commerce. Can we begin it on a more honorable occasion or with a weaker foe?" He added that John Paul Jones, the naval hero of the Revolutionary War, "with half a dozen frigates" could subdue the slave kingdoms of North Africa...
...further skew the balance of power away from the Commission and toward national governments. "That's the long game people are watching, not the Commission President," says the diplomat. The short game matters, though. Delors ended up stronger than his German and French promoters had intended; Prodi perhaps somewhat weaker. Given the challenges ahead, the new compromise candidate - whether Barroso or another dark horse - will need to demonstrate a formidable set of skills and a very thick political skin of he wants to go down as more of a Delors than a Prodi...
...going to be a smaller group of women within the people who have been offered tenure,” Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby said in an interview last week. “[But] we have had stronger and weaker years in recruitment of women at all levels of the Faculty...
Jaeger refused to respond to those criticisms, citing the much weaker position of non-unionized administrative workers at Harvard, who will see only a 1- or 2-percent pay increase this year...
...growing weaker, yet its light appears to be dimming. Between 1960 and 1990, some scientists believe, the amount of solar radiation reaching Earth's surface may have declined as much as 10%--and in some places, Hong Kong, for example, more than...