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...regional elections. A masterful new book by Irish journalist Paddy Woodworth helps to explain this conundrum, why it is that so many presumably sane electors in the northern Basque region have kept putting their X next to the candidates of the extreme nationalist party Euskal Herritarrok or its predecessor Herri Batasuna...
Policies of appeasement do nothing to advance U.S. goals. Bush’s predecessor tried that with scant results: witness, for example, his failure to influence China on arms sales or human rights. Clinton’s vacillating ambiguity proved that being liked doesn’t help us get countries to do what we want. What it gets us is cocksure rogue states convinced the U.S. will waffle under pressure...
Alternatively, he’ll follow the example of his predecessor and receive the report with a smile and a handshake, promise to take it under the utmost consideration, and then bury it under all those letters to prospective donors...
...23rd president of Harvard was both a leader in national education reform and an international figure, serving as the High Commissioner to Germany under U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Class of 1904, during the final year of his Harvard tenure. Rudenstine’s predecessor, Derek C. Bok, was also a prominent national figure, frequently writing op-ed pieces in national newspapers and testifying before Congress...
...while his predecessor was prepared to negotiate away many of the settlements, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has historically been a fierce advocate of the settlement movement for both security and ideological reasons. And on Tuesday he flatly rejected Washington's call to freeze settlement activity as one of the requirements for a cease-fire with Palestinians. Sharon built his political career in large part as a champion of the settlers, and although he accepted a freeze on building new settlements as a condition for getting the Labor Party into his unity government, he is committed to an aggressive expansion...