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When Lieut. General David Petraeus appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee a few weeks ago, he was subjected to a curious line of questioning by Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. The questions seemed substantive, but they weren't really. They were intended to lure the general into the Senate's political debate over a nonbinding resolution of disapproval of the President's so-called surge policy in Iraq. In the manner of a friendly prosecutor, Lieberman steered Petraeus toward his objective--a clear statement from the general that such a resolution would hurt the morale of our troops...
...retained a Castro-esque military spunk and penchant for tyranny that polarizes his people. For every Venezuelan who wouldn’t mind going by Comrade, another distrusts Chavez’s hard-line anti-globalization policy and his choice to take some economic cues from the likes of Joseph Stalin. Still, these odds are better than the sub-30 percent approval ratings President Bush is currently working with. Maybe Americans could use a President who knows his way around an M16. What’s wrong with a little collective ownership, anyway? And doesn’t everybody love...
...Mass. Hall officials, have urged the panel to finish the search soon to allow for new leadership appointments within the University and to provide ample time for the transition, the two sources said. Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles and Medical School Dean Joseph B. Martin are only expected to serve through the end of the current academic year, which ends June 30, and the dean of the Graduate School of Design, Alan A. Altshuler, has also announced plans to resign. Although Faust oversees a school of only 81 staff members, fewer than...
After missing the deadlines for study abroad programs in Spain, Joseph Florez ’06-’07, a history concentrator from New Mexico, applied to study abroad in Chile instead. He spent the next two years there studying, conducting research for his thesis, and writing for a local newspaper...
...Joseph Biden has some company - it turns out serious political gaffes aren't just for bumbling American presidential candidates. On Jan. 27 Japan's Health Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa gave a speech on the country's shrinking population in which he referred to Japanese women of childbearing age as "baby-making machines." He went onto explain that arresting population decline was difficult "because the number of baby-making machines and devices is fixed [in the population]; all we can do is ask them to do their best per head." The 71-year-old Yanagisawa did add, however, "that...