Why I let Chemerinsky go  —  I made a management decision — not an ideological or political one — to rescind the job offer, says the UC Irvine chancellor.  —  T he University of California at Irvine over the last several months has conducted a nationwide search for the founding dean of our school of law.

The Least Bad Plan  —  PRESIDENT BUSH'S explanation of his latest plans for Iraq last night was marred by a couple of important omissions.  First, the president failed to acknowledge that, according to the standards he himself established in January, the surge of U.S. troops into Iraq has been a failure …

No Exit, No Strategy  —  This was the week in which Americans hoped they would get straight talk and clear thinking on Iraq.  What they got was two exhausting days of Congressional testimony by the American military commander, hours of news conferences and interviews, clouds of cut …

Ruling Nothing Out  —  "We need very bold, dramatic change, change at every level.... That's what the Republican Party has to stand for."  —  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who has been toying with the idea of jumping into the GOP presidential contest, sat down with National Journal's Linda Douglass …