...are likely to get the job done. There's much more to it than that, according to an analysis issued by The Brookings Institution, a privately financed think tank that describes itself as a bridge between scholarship and public policy...

...his Social Security program than he does at tax reform,'' said Henry J. Aaron, an economics analyst at the Brookings Institution. ''I think you can move the pea around under the shell a little more readily on Social Security.'' Aaron...

...the Democrats can learn to behave like an opposition party,'' said Henry J. Aaron, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a liberal-leaning think tank based in Washington. ''That means taking popular stands and not paying quite...

...terrorists, and I am confident that we will prevail.'' Michael O'Hanlon, a foreign policy scholar at the Brookings Institution, said he has no doubt that bin Laden timed his message to coincide with the U.S. election. ''But I don't...

... ''His conservative base will expect him to deliver,'' said Thomas Mann, a presidential scholar at the Brookings Institution. Pushing measures dear to the religious right could limit his bargaining ability on other issues and make him...

...the Palestinians and was unwilling to do much to help them. It is unclear whether that has changed,'' said Brookings Institution analyst Martin Indyk, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and a former assistant secretary of state. ''On...