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...Hastert has one advantage in the fight to keep his job: most of his House colleagues like the former wrestling coach. His affable personality got him the job in the first place. After Newt Gingrich stepped down in 1998 and Louisiana Congressman Bob Livington withdrew after revelations about his marital infidelities, Hastert was plucked out of obscurity to take the reins of the House...
...will show up sooner or later. "Technique doesn't replace politics. There have to be ideas, convictions, a discussion of the stakes," says former Prime Minister and two-time presidential candidate Lionel Jospin, whose disdain for Royal's approach led him to challenge her for the party nomination. (He withdrew from the race last week, removing a major hurdle for Royal.) An adviser to Strauss-Kahn issues a similar criticism: "What the polls measure is popularity, not competence. Socialists have a furious love of debate, and she's not debating. What does she think about debt, about foreign policy, about...
...hatred and lead to rational behavior from terrorist actors. While dialogue is an important tool toward reconciliation, history shows that dialogue alone will not deter Hezbollah from rearming, Hamas from supporting suicide attacks in Israel, and Iran from continuing its sponsorship of terror and nuclear development. Indeed, after Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2002, Hezbollah ignored UN Resolution 1559, which called for its disarmament. It will do so again if current UN demands for its disarmament are not backed up by active international support of Lebanon.Just as the disarmament of Hezbollah is a primary necessity for any long-lasting agreement...
...That wouldn’t seem so bad if Shleifer hadn’t been privy to a variety of internal financial changes in Russia, which made any personal investments in the Russian economy a violation of Harvard’s USAID contract. In light of these allegations, USAID withdrew their contract in 1997, and Shleifer was sent home...
...charged with intent to commit a felony and disorderly conduct when he allegedly reached into an unoccupied ambulance parked outside of Currier House. While the EMTs aided a sick student, Rodger allegedly stole a pair of rubber gloves. When a police officer and an EMT reemerged from Currier, Rodger withdrew from the ambulance and appeared to hide something in his back pocket. He admitted to taking the gloves, and by the time he spoke to The Crimson two days later, the police had dropped charges.“The whole thing was blown out of proportion...