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BERNARD-HENRI LEVY No. Because it was the wrong target: Iran and Pakistan are infinitely more threatening. Because it was the wrong approach: the neoconservatives, who put no stock in government policy at home and thus can't do so abroad, produced no plans for democratic nation building. And, above all, because this war, which aimed to reduce the number and strength of terrorists, has instead increased them. What was needed was to break the infernal cycle of the "clash of civilizations," ŕ la Sam Huntington and Osama bin Laden. Instead, the war breathed new life into it. In short...
...selling the brand abroad has been keeping it hot at home. Whether in Detroit or Taipei, the company relies on grass-roots marketing. To explain how to "heel" skate on one rear wheel, the company cherry-picks a handful of cool kids, "like school athletes," in selected schools to join Team Heelys. These paid performers demo the shoes at malls, concerts and sporting events, and they also chat up Team Heelys wannabes on the Heelys website, generating cred and buzz...
India is touted as “a land for all seasons,” but next week the country will play host to University President Lawrence H. Summers. The trip will not exactly be spring break for the president, who will represent the University abroad in meetings with academic, business, and government leaders, along with alumni. The purpose of the trip is to bolster the University’s ties with the world’s second most populous country, and forge new ones, according to the president’s spokesman, John D. Longbrake. Summers will...
...prevented from attending universities, and some Baha’i have been imprisoned solely because of their faith.Why should Harvard students care about the suffering in Iran? And what can they do about it? Human rights advocates always run into a number of formidable hurdles in addressing any crisis abroad. Many of us struggle with difficult questions about what exactly constitutes a violation of human rights and whether it is appropriate for us to be the moral arbiters for a distant culture. And so on, until we have plagued ourselves with self-doubt. Certainly, the unelected clerics of Iran depend...
...fundamental rights of hundreds, if not thousands, of human beings,” Li said, referring to the August 2002 “torture memo” produced by the Office of Legal Counsel and signed by Bybee. The memo said that the torture of al Qaeda terrorists held abroad “may be justified” and that international covenants may be an unconstitutional violation of the president’s authority. Many legal experts have attacked the memo, and the Bush administration even took the drastic step of formally disavowing it in June 2004. Yale Law School...