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...professor of arab studies at Columbia University, “has led some Palestinian leaders to believe that he might deal differently with the Middle East than his opponents for the White House,” however pro-Israel Obama continues to be. The article suggests that the Palestinian leaders?? belief “is not drawn from Obama’s speeches or campaign literature, but from comments that some say Obama made in private and from his association with the Palestinian American community...
Cries from global leaders??including Pope Benedict XVI, former President Jimmy Carter and Archbishop Desmond Tutu—have brought the unusual case of Troy Davis into the national spotlight. Davis, who claims he was wrongly convicted of shooting a police officer in Savannah, Georgia in 1989, has seen seven out of the nine witnesses who pointed to him recant their testimonies in recent years. A long series of appeals over the past 19 years left the Supreme Court as his last hope to save him from his execution, which was scheduled for Sept. 23. Yet this past...
...attention and linked the country’s longtime and ailing leader Fidel Castro with terrorist groups. “I believe that Fidel Castro is first and foremost anti-American,” Gutierrez said. Gutierrez connected the country’s current poverty with its leaders?? corruption. “The average Cuban makes $20 a month,” he said. “Part of the big problem with Cuba is that the government, of course, provides rations for food. Food rations last about 10 days and then the Cubans are left to resolve...
...Camelot. On the two broad issues, creative Democratic alternatives—to the knee-jerk liberalism of Kennedy as well as to the simplistic atavism of Reagan—seem particularly key. Defense spending has long been a bete noire for the Democrats, and only recently have party leaders??including some presidential hopefuls—begun seriously backing plans for heightened military expenditures. It is time for Democrats to realize that their longtime blanket opposition to costly military programs has been misguided—and that there is a viable middle ground between the minimalist defense posture...
...delighted that our field commands such strong student interest. We believe an “economic understanding” of the world is essential to civic engagement, productivity in the work place, and good personal financial management. Indeed, this mission—preparing students to be engaged citizens and leaders??is mirrored in the preamble of Harvard’s newly adopted General Education curriculum...