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...indeed, that he called the police hours after their occupation of University Hall, when a little amount of empathy and patience would have avoided the tribulations and histrionics that followed). The University is now so fully engaged in the world that it is barely recognizable. Programs of education abroad, participation in scientific, political and economic enterprises at home and abroad, and a spectacular opening to the arts and cultures of the U.S. and of the world now risk relegating to the sidelines what should be the essence and the bulk of the University’s activities: teaching and research...
...goals of this University. The remarkable enthusiasm of so many of its students for contributing to the welfare of the world is a huge asset—as long as they remember that they need to be more than good Samaritans. Ultimately, wise policies at home, and successful ones abroad, require fair and decent governments. Good citizens cannot turn their backs on politics, whatever the frustrations of political involvement and action may be. If they do, what Tocqueville called “democratic individualism”—the triumph of the private over the public—will...
...Godina said, drenching the word “happened” with sarcasm. “The official story was it was separate, but me being in Boston was definitely an influence” on his college decision, she said. Subsequently, they have synched up study-abroad stints in New Zealand and have “molded each other” in terms of their academic interests, Godina said. They even chose to go to the same law school—Stanford—next year. In a way, coordination even seems to be a factor in their decision...
...high costs of unchecked hegemony. In October, Michael Mukasey replaced the disgraced Alberto Gonzales as United States Attorney General, even as he could offer only equivocation on the subject of waterboarding—the precise opposite of the message American leadership must send to former friends and allies abroad...
...Death row is full of the poor and the powerless. At the same time, as sociologist Jefferey Reinman has pointed out, government leaders such as Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon have never even gone to trial for their involvement in military actions abroad which led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans in southeast Asia...