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...different from previous health-care-reform efforts (like Bill Clinton's) has been Obama's skill - so far - at keeping potential adversaries at the table. But at a certain point, the President won't be able to remain so (deliberately) vague about what he wants to see in the final product, and the details of the plan will very much determine whether potential opponents will support him in the end. Nowhere is that clearer than on the controversial question of whether the health-care-reform scheme will include a "public option," which would give people the choice of being covered...
...last few weeks of the search, Minow emerged as a top contender along with acting Dean Howell E. Jackson and Professors John F. Manning ’82 and David Wilkins ’77, according to individuals on the faculty familiar with the search. Faust made the final selection...
...That charge turned into a rallying cry for Mousavi supporters, who have taken to chanting "Liar! Liar!" whenever they encounter the President's backers. When he faced Rezai, a former Revolutionary Guard commander, in the final debate on Monday, Ahmadinejad appeared less confident. Rezai challenged the President on the economic numbers, saying, "People, after all, live in this country. They experience inflation. They know the price of things...
...Obviously, he wasn't going to offer any concessions, publicly, to Obama. In fact, Mashaal is facing more immediate problems than the final-status negotiations that Obama is proposing. Gaza, which Hamas controls, lies in ruins. The border crossings are still sealed by Israel, except for some humanitarian goods, despite entreaties by Hillary Clinton, and the Gazans are unable to rebuild. Mashaal is also enmeshed in his own local political struggle, against Fatah, the moderate Palestinian party, which receives the bulk of international donations for reconstruction and whose security forces are armed and trained by the U.S. Hamas violently expelled...
...stopped there and blew up the vehicle." The attackers' vehicle was vaporized, he adds. In scenes that revive grim memories of last September's attack on the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad (the hotels have the same owner), nearby cars have been crushed and mangled. Then as now, the final moments before the bombing are revealed in CCTV footage shot by cameras mounted around the hotel compound. The brief clip shows a cyclist pull up to the entrance of the hotel compound. After speaking with the guard, the metal barrier is lowered, and the cyclist passes. Three attackers follow inside...