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...addition to its disastrous implications for Russo-American relations in the post-Soviet era, the defense program would put a damper on President Obama’s promised negotiations with Iran regarding its nuclear weapons program. This January, at the Munich Security Conference, Vice President Joseph Biden announced that the United States would “continue to develop missile defenses to counter a growing Iranian capability,” hardly the language of constructive diplomacy. To many, Biden’s speech sent a very direct message to Tehran: Even with Bush gone, it remains part...
...swearing-in of new leadership and debate over development plans in the nearby Silver Maple Forest brought both celebration and contention to last night’s Cambridge City Council meeting. Following the resignation of Vice Mayor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87 last month, Larry Ward was chosen to fill the vacancy on the council. Councillor Sam Seidel was elected by unanimous vote of the Council—though one councillor was not in attendance—to take over as Vice-Mayor at last night’s meeting. Both were then given...
...would benefit from having more resources, like home-care aides, at their disposal. The debate is an emotional one, says Paul Wolpe, director of the Atlanta-based Emory Center for Ethics, mainly because Americans are still uneasy with the idea of assisted suicide. Yet Jerry Dincin, Final Exit's vice president, believes the sentiment could be changing and that the right to die could become "the human right of the 21st century...
...taxes-the latest in an embarrassing series of tax snafus involving Obama's Cabinet nominees. An early convert to the Obama camp and a nascent star in the Democratic party, Sebelius' success guiding a deep-red heartland state vaulted her onto the short list of candidates for the vice-presidential nomination last summer. Though she is widely respected for her administrative skills and bipartisan maneuvering, she is also a Washington newcomer who must navigate a sprawling 65,000-employee bureaucracy facing budget woes and reeling from recent food safety scandals. Sebelius would become one of Obama's point people...
...body experience." Describing the tide of media attention surrounding her consideration as a potential vice-presidential nominee. Topeka Capital Journal...