He said that the authorities planned to continue discussions with representatives of the protests, which have criticized a broad range of political leaders, in an effort to identify priorities.
As a former director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, I find it hard to understand why the Obama administration made this decision and why it justified it by relying on a legal opinion that has been criticized by a range of people, including academics and members of Congress.
In the interview, the king was reported as criticizing a wide range of Jordanians, including tribal elders — whom he reportedly dismissed as "old dinosaurs," leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, and members of his own family.
On the campaign trail, Mr. Romney has focused on his business background and two decades in the private sector, and his plan is a stark rebuke of Mr. Obama's economic leadership, criticizing a broad range of policies including restrictions on domestic energy production and the regulatory reach of the government.
But he also used his vast knowledge of the classical languages and their literatures as a tool to criticize a wide range of ideas, theories, and established practices.
The German magazine Der Spiegel has an op-ed today by climate researchers Richard Tol, Roger Pielke, and Hans von Storch criticizing a range of procedures at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and its head, Rajendra Pachauri.
Mr. Romney also criticized a White House decision scrapping a proposed antiballistic missile shield in Eastern Europe and building in its place a reconfigured system to shoot down short- and medium-range Iranian missiles.
A third criticized a recently published paper on particle physics.
Last week, the State Department's annual survey of human rights criticized China on a range of rights issues.
Mr. Kitzhaber, who was elected in 1994 and re-elected in 1998, also criticized, by implication, a range of state and federal officials who have called for more study of the issue.
