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Klein quoted an administration official who referred to the failure of Bush's Iraq policy as "a Mick Jagger moment...You can't always get what you want." Now we will find out if the President recognizes that he has to abandon his six-year Under My Thumb approach to dealing with Congress...
...such as “History of South Asia to 1200 C.E.” and “Indian Philosophy.” Courses such as “Hindutva” delve into contemporary political issues, but such courses are the exception. While the department should not abandon its current strengths (that is, ancient languages and ancient studies), it would be negligent for it to simply ignore the need for scholarship on contemporary South Asia. Similar deficiencies lie in the availability of grants, research, and study abroad opportunities—all of which many Harvard students seek, according...
...lifetime. Nonetheless, both have the means to inflict considerable and prolonged suffering on the Lebanese people in a futile attempt to transform the country’s mix of competing political creeds into one norm. Based on this understanding, the world should—temporarily—abandon the idea of an international tribunal for the slain Lebanese leader Rafik al-Hariri, because it will most likely lead to more hostility. Instead, the international community should focus on helping Lebanon cure itself of the evil that, in recent history, we have seen its people inflict on each other...
...Medvedow, the cheerful locomotive who has been director of the ICA since 1998. Back then, says Medvedow, the place was "striving to be marginal"--organizing thoughtful shows that not enough people saw. Soon after she arrived, she convinced the trustees that the only way to survive was to grow, abandon the cramped former police station that the institute had occupied since 1975 and set out to build a sizable new home with, as it turned out out, architects who had built almost nothing. "It was a huge risk," she admits. "But it was the right risk. If we had everything...
...brewing for more than a half century, ever since the Supreme Court in its 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision outlawed school segregation. The busing battles that followed this landmark ruling were the stuff of civil rights lore. But in 1991 the court ruled that school districts could abandon that unpopular strategy and return to neighborhood schooling, even if that meant some schools would resegregate. That's what happened in many districts, and the proportion of black students attending nonwhite-majority schools has increased over the past dozen years from 66% to 73%. In some parts of the country...