Word: allowed
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...arguments, utterly accessible, by never retreating into off-the-record sessions, by being so candid that reporters compete to see if they can ask a question that he won't answer, and by reveling in the byplay of late-night chats with the better-informed reporters, which allow him to test arguments he's thinking of using in court. "In some of these trials," Boies says, "the only other people who care as much about the case as I do are the opposing lawyers and the reporters who are covering it." Through those sometimes long evenings, Boies will surreptitiously drop...
Optimism, as dissident Czech writer Milan Kundera once opined, is an opiate. And its most practiced traffickers, of course, are politicians. But optimism is an indulgence military and intelligence professionals can scarcely allow themselves. And that makes the U.S. intelligence community's new report on our world 15 years from now, "Global Trends 2015," a cold-water corrective to some of the sunny nonsense about globalization that passes for conventional wisdom in Washington...
...there are several crucial differences across Harvard's nine schools. For example, the College does not allow students to sit on its ad board out of fear that students will not be as objective as the faculty members...
...greatest concerns expressed by conservationists is that Bush would allow environmentally damaging riders attached to otherwise popular spending bills to creep out of Congress and become law without the threat of a presidential veto. "Rolling back is not going to be easy," says George Frampton of the Council on Environmental Quality. "But sitting on one's hands for four years is going to be easy, and we can't afford that...
...Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak may have benefited from a similar effect. His most dangerous challenger, Benjamin Netanyahu, bowed out of the February election Monday, citing the legislature's refusal to vote for a full new election. Instead, the Knesset voted on a special "Bibi Bill" to allow any citizen to run in February's poll, which is only for the post of prime minister (the law had previously restricted the elections to members of the current parliament). Although polls have Netanyahu leading Barak by a 2-to-1 margin, the former prime minister demurred rather than pursue...