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...participatory democracy throughout the region; even a society as closed as Saudi Arabia's has held local elections for the first time. But for most Muslims, any credit owed to the U.S. for such advances is outweighed by simmering resentment over the war in Iraq and the lack of progress toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. As the triumph of Hamas in last month's Palestinian elections showed, holding free elections in such conditions runs a high risk of rewarding fundamentalist groups that have little interest in tamping down anti-Western attitudes. The popularity of Islamists may be discomfiting...
...tips in a day than he otherwise would in a month. Smith’s observation that people respond to economic incentives really seems to hold true in this case. Economic incentives—and sadly, not solely intellectual or spiritual motives—can bring about progress in areas like medicine, technology, and scholarship. Ultimately, it’s a trade-off. A society can either have complete equality and no social divisions but inadequate resources, or great inequality and social divisions along with the impetus to continually move forward. I reluctantly prefer the latter. I know that American...
...instability of your administration may paralyze the progress of the curricular review and might mire us in mistrust and, again, paralysis,” said Sorensen, who served on the Committee on General Education, which has played a central role in the review...
...Several agencies represented at the hearing, however, did report progress on getting a handle on their inventory. William Matthews, an assistant commissioner at the General Services Administration, said that it now maintains 376 vacant and underused assets, including office buildings, courthouses, laboratories and warehouses, out of a total of nearly 9,000 properties. The VA reported that 5% of its nearly 150 million square feet is vacant, including the main VA hospital in Milwaukee. In a federal budget that President Bush just proposed at $2.77 trillion, several billion dollars on unused office space may seem insignifcant. But Democratic Senator Barack...
...semester today, as administrators attempt to keep professors’ attention on the curricular review in the wake of Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s resignation and continuing unhappiness with University President Lawrence H. Summers’ leadership. The review has made noticeable progress in recent months. All the committee reports have been completed and compiled. A number of Faculty meetings this fall were spent discussing the reports. And draft legislation for changes to concentrations has been considered by the Faculty Council, the governing body of FAS. But with tension still lingering between some...