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...entire process transparent? Why not allow the Chinese media to investigate Chen's crimes and write about them? Why not allow a court in Shanghai to try him, instead of conducting the whole process under a cloak of secrecy? Why try to fight corruption using the same opaque apparatus that allows it to flourish in the first place? The secrecy surrounding the whole operation fuels speculation over whether Hu is cleaning his house of graft, or sweeping out political rivals...
...school districts across the country before suggesting that colleges take up the slack. Colleges, instead, are charged with cultivating broad understandings of the world and producing citizens who are productive and curious members of our society. Little of this, however, can be tracked by an expensive and cumbersome apparatus of surveys and statisticians...
...countries. We have destabilized the world with our foreign policy in Iraq. I don't understand with the millions of dollars we've poured into Iraq and the state that it's in right now, why we couldn't have earmarked some of that money for our homeland security apparatus...
...push for war with Iraq, which was based on what is now known to have been seriously flawed intelligence. That suspicion was only heightened when The New York Times reported Thursday that some Republican leaders and Bush Administration officials were starting to argue that certain elements of the intelligence apparatus, which tends to believe that Iran is still years away from developing a nuclear weapon, were not taking the threat seriously enough. (The fact that one of the report's authors was Frederick Fleitz, an ex-CIA officer who had worked for a leading Bush Administration hawk...
...Other veteran Cuba analysts, not surprisingly, insist that this is too charitable a characterization of a man so long associated with an oppressive military and security apparatus, responsible for imprisoning and in many instances torturing thousands of dissidents. And a number of factors could keep Raul on the hard line even after Fidel dies. For one thing, the largesse of Fidel's left-wing and oil-rich ally, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, has helped significantly to keep Cuba's economy afloat, lessening the urgency of economic reforms that many had expected under Fidel in recent years. (Cuba may also...