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Retired four-star general Anthony C. Zinni said in an interview last night that Iraq policy will largely be determined by the situation on the ground and not by which party wins the White House in November. “The situation in Iraq will dictate the actual policy,” Zinni said after his speech at the Institute of Politics (IOP). “There will not be much difference between a Democratic President or a Republican President once the new presidency begins. I believe that the next President will see American security interests in a different light...
Even still, our generational predicament has little to do with actual apathy. Instead, our empathy has been buried in overexposure to images and the realistic attitude that came with it. Our more sophisticated view of international injustice leads many to throw up their hands who might otherwise have raised a banner or taken up a megaphone. There is almost too much information available: reminding us all of the scope of today’s problems and the looming barriers to our good intentions, curbing our ambitions to save the world. We’re daunted by the incapacity of activism...
...Courses of Instruction looking for classes whose descriptions were sympathetic to their own interests, perhaps checking afterwards the reviews of prior enrollees. Poor rubes! In this streamlined age, the process is inverted: first, come to the table with a number in mind; afterwards, you can bother with the actual topic and content of the course. The cluttered old catalog, with its idiosyncratic and long-winded descriptive paragraphs following the course titles, has been rendered obsolete by crisp tables of course titles each followed by a chain of 10 numbers. Nowadays, that’s all you need.Students have no doubt...
...lost himself, or rather the dark, the numb gap he could tell was asleep inside him”.But what he finds when he arrives in Germany is a waking nightmare, a camp full of people trapped in the war: ex-soldiers attempt to complete digging the actual tunnels they never finished during the war and ex-Nazis break limbs and faces while masquerading as innocent displaced persons. Day cannot help but think, “Everybody is mad here, all permanently mad.”And the plot is far and away the work’s least compelling...
...three sections of Northeastern fans unleashed boos and incoherent chants on the whole arena each time the kids pointed to the Veritas logo and smirked, something occurred to me: shouldn’t actual Harvard students be the ones getting a kick out of antagonizing the opposing team’s fans? At the Beanpot no less...