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...grasp the logic of this strategy, start with the fact that Obama's likely national-security picks don't actually disagree very much with the foreign policy he laid out during the campaign. Jones is on record calling the Iraq war a "debacle" and urging that the detention center at Guantánamo Bay be closed "tomorrow." Gates has also reportedly pushed for closing Gitmo and for faster withdrawals from Iraq. He has called a military strike against Iran a "strategic calamity," urged diplomacy with Tehran's mullahs and denounced the "creeping militarization" of U.S. foreign policy. (You don't hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Chooses an Unlikely Team of Hawks | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...Davis said that academics talk a lot about the goal of integrative and interdisciplinary work, and that this is an instance of an actual project coming to fruition...

Author: By Victor W. Yang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Walden Data Aids Climate Science | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

...deadline for entering the lottery for the much-coveted H-1B visas. In the not-too-distant past, graduates of the College were able to leap this bureaucratic hurdle by submitting a letter from the Dean of Harvard College to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in lieu of an actual diploma. This allowed many graduating seniors with job offers to effectively compete in the visa lottery. This practice, which had been commonplace during the tenure of former Dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross, petered out when Gross left the office in 2007. Now that the College is benefiting from...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: A Nation of Nerds | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

...knows. Luckily, the Crimson carabinieri went on to thrash the Bulldogs, 10 to nothing, in front of a frostbitten, largely vegetative crowd. There seemed to be more enthusiasm about the announcement of Sen. Edward Kennedy’s attendance at the annual competition than any one of its actual happenings...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: Pep Poise | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

...Somehow, this didn’t seem like quite the quality of thought anyone had in mind. After about a minute of considering this, I became bored and discontented. I tried googling “Profound Things to Think About,” but without any actual knowledge to draw upon, I found it challenging to come up with a solution to the budget crisis on short notice...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: The Beginning of Wisdom | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

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