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...then, can Harvard minimize the injurious effects of legacy preference while maximizing the good that comes out of it? Harvard might choose to accept fewer upper-middle-class legacies—but to continue taking children from fabulously-wealthy graduates as well as non-alumni fat cats. Upon first glance, that seems strikingly unjust. It would favor the children of multimillionaire alums over the children of ordinary-millionaire alums. (More than half of Harvard’s graduates are millionaires, according to an estimate by 02138 Magazine...
...White House Conference on Global Literacy that drew 30 first ladies and spouses of world leaders and 41 ministers of education from around the world among the 250 in attendance. She's speaking Wednesday at the former President's second annual Clinton Global Initiative, and on Thursday she will accept an award from a group chaired by McCain. In between, she's accompanying President George W. Bush to events in Manhattan as part of the 61st annual United Nations General Assembly, appeared at the New York Stock Exchange and is leading a roundtable discussion about the humanitarian crisis in Burma...
...President Bush did his best at the U.N. to paint the U.S. as a friend of the Arab world's huddled masses. But events in Iraq, in the Palestinian territories and in Lebanon all have dampened prospects that those huddled masses will accept the President as their champion...
...Other signatories are implicitly given permission to do the same, leaving the protections to be enforced only at the captors’ discretion. It is hypocrisy to claim that such legislation amounts to fulfilling our treaty obligations, which Bush adamantly maintains we intend to do.The United States needs to accept the inconvenience of the moral high ground and defend the Geneva Conventions. American soldiers give their lives to defend our country’s ideals. It is imperative that our government protect them as well as the ideals they defend. We are at war and we must take extraordinary measures...
...that sponsors terrorism and calls for Israel's destruction--but the time may come when that's the only bargaining chip short of war the U.S. has left. And still that may not be enough. "[The Iranians] would give up nuclear power if they truly believed the U.S. would accept Iran as it is," says a university professor in Tehran who asked not to be identified. "But the mistrust runs too deep for them to believe that is possible...