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…ited Nations Security Council to impose a no-fly zone on Libya meant that it was now decision time on launching a third American war in the Middle East, though no one in the U.S. government dared call it that. Muammar Qaddafi was ramping up his genocidal threats, pledging to show...

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…del, strategic plans, and operating efficiency? How would analysts react to its earnings reports? Although some 45%1 of American households own shares in publicly traded companies and receive related quarterly financial statements, not many “stakeholders” look closely at Washingt...

… who have a different reading of history or the future of the global order. They see the world not as some ready-to-eat American political order but rather as a churning, uncertain, urgently worrying vortex. They wonder: What might we build? They look at America’s global leadersh...

… be just about the bare minimum to keep employment at tolerable levels. And neither China nor India is a major buyer of American-made goods and services; for the most part, it's the other way around. With much of the developed world trailing the United States, it will take Americ...

…rnational community from the concessions we had been willing to consider. When the President suggested drafting a final American paper, based on Camp David though presumably with an even more generous proposal for the Palestinians, I agreed. I figured even Arafat might realize at...

…ssible. Polls have shown that popular faith in Congress and the Supreme Court are at historic lows. A growing number of Americans question the effectiveness of representative democracy and ask whether it would be better to let the president make decisions unen- cumbered by the le...

… was far outside this self-selected elite circle—The Best and the Brightest was a handbook about the characteristics of American power and the routes to it. Not just the right schools and right backgrounds, although that, too, but the attitudes, conceits, affect, and language tha...

Article 1. Scientific American Is Muammar QOadhafi Clinicall Psychotic? John Matson August 23, 2011 -- OUT OF TOUCH: The bizarre statements Col. Muammar Qadhafi has made in the past several months may result from a self-imposed insulation from reality, rather than a delusiona...

response, or an American one, on an incomparably greater scale. It would also totally isolate Saddam internationally and end any chance of peeling off Arab support for the Americans. It was my nearly 100-per-cent caveat that prompted a tense debate within the cabinet. Even if th...

…as so kind to read the poem with me and you were so kind to make it happen. Lisa Elisa New Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature Director, Poetry in America Harvard University 148 Barker Center 12 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 please note The information contained...

…ith reasonable decreases in the bilateral trade deficit, and some substantive changes in Chinese economic behavior, the American negotiating strategy requires some serious recalibration. Of course, China’s public position is that negotiations can continue. Even within the framew...

…cratic regimes and openly assist dissidents and democrats. This is not about military intervention or the imposition of American- style democracy. It is about using American power and influence to support organic reform movements. The United States Agency for International Devel...

…eingarten. "The bluster, the conspiracy theories, and the threats of Mr. Erdogan are not strong enough to overwhelm the American legal system," he added. "And for that reason we believe that Mr. Gulen should not and will not be extradited." Mr. Weingarten said the chances that hi...

…vard and Yale. SOHO China founders Pan Shiyi and Zhang Xin reportedly set up a $100 million dollar scholarship fund for American universities in 2014 to facilitate attendance of underprivileged Chinese students, and they have already made substantial gifts to Harvard and Yale. 2...