July 1, 2009 at 12:05 am
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Despite her disastrous performance in the 2008 election, Sarah Palin is still the sexiest brand in Republican politics, with a lucrative book contract for her story. But what Alaska’s charismatic governor wants the public to know about herself doesn’t always jibe with reality. As John McCain’s top campaign officials talk more candidly than ever before about the meltdown of his vice-presidential pick, the author tracks the signs—political and personal—that Palin was big trouble, and checks the forecast for her future.
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This report shows how three metropolitan areas—Portland (OR), Kansas City, and Boise—became centers of high technology industry without the presence of a major university. For each metropolitan area it describes the history of high-tech development, current status of high-tech industry clusters, and the roles that public policy and higher education played in spurring the growth of high-tech industry. In the three metropolitan areas high-tech industry is very specialized, anchor firms and new business startups helped it develop, high-tech industry predated supportive public policies, and local universities that were not major research institutions helped support high-tech growth after high-tech industry was already established. The evidence on high-tech development in the three metropolitan areas offers important information for policymakers and practitioners interested in technology-based economic development outside of large, well-established high tech centers.
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, a viable roadmap for disarming Hizbullah through domestic peace-building exists within Lebanon itself, Beirut-based political analyst Nicholas Noe writes in a new report published by The Century Foundation. Such a course should be pursued vigorously by the Obama administration, Noe argues in his paper “Re-Imagining the Lebanon Track: Toward a New U.S. Policy.” Noe, the editor of the 2007 book, Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, and a co-founder of the Beirut-based news translation service Mideastwire.com, makes the case that a new, Lebanon-focused policy is needed in the immediate term regardless of the prospects for U.S. efforts on the Syrian and Iranian tracks. While progress on these can certainly be helpful on the Lebanese front, he says, the deep challenges confronting both a Syrian-Israeli peace agreement and any “grand bargain” between the United States and Iran – and the not trivial prospects for failure on both…
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