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...terrorism--but failed to persuade most of their principal allies or the European public. and as most Europeans see it now, the failure to find weapons of mass destruction and the chaos in Iraq have only confirmed the wisdom of their opposition to the war. President Bush does not accept a single element of this critique. Yet his administration, which originally disdained help from countries that doubted him, now would welcome their soldiers and money. But help is not on the way. France and Germany have made it clear that they won't send troops, and last week German Chancellor...
...soon disappointed and then venomously embittered when it became clear that the U.S. would not open a second front in 1942 or even in 1943. As compensation, Roosevelt offered Stalin some Lend-Lease aid, vague assurances of a free hand in postwar Eastern Europe, and a pledge to accept nothing less than Germany's (and Japan's) unconditional surrender. The Russians fought on, but at horrendous cost. Stalin fulminated that Roosevelt was waging war with American money and American machines--and with Russian men. The accusation arose from anger and cynicism, but it had the sting of truth. For every...
...civilizing one, as if they aimed to do no more than bring afternoon tea or the metric system to those in less fortunate lands.) Stripped of all its justifications, imperialism means rule by someone else. In the 21st century, it is implausible to expect an occupied people will accept such a fate happily. But, as we have learned recently, there is another reason why imperialism carries the seeds of its own failure. Grand designs to remake nations are dreamed up in the groves of academe and the corridors of power. They are implemented, however, by young men (and women...
...such a thorough overhaul of the old test weren’t stressful enough for college applicants, college admissions committees aren’t being consistent on what they will accept from the high school class of 2006—will scores from either the old or the new test be ok or will applicants have to take the test over after the new exam comes out? Harvard recently determined that it would only accept the new exam from the applicant Class of 2006, but this is the wrong decision. Harvard should accept both the old and new SAT exam...
...even if Harvard accepts both exams, that still leaves the system rife with inconsistency. Yale plans to accept either exam, while the University of California system will only accept the new exam, for example. We hope that Harvard will change its policy and that other colleges will follow its example accepting both tests, if only for consistency’s sake. Otherwise, the SAT will be to college admissions what analogies are to the old test—unnecessarily frustrating...