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...anyone can, and indeed should, adopt a similar mindset. Here we are, at the most self-important of all learning institutions. Why not have a self-important inner monologue about one’s familial destiny...
...Medical Association and all part of a much larger project called the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), which started in the early 1990s. The low-fat diet section of the investigation was designed to answer two related questions: 1) Can you get a lot of middle-aged women to adopt a diet that contains no more than 20% of its calories from fat? and 2) Will that low-fat diet protect them against breast or colon cancer? (As an afterthought, the investigators added a question about the diet's effect on heart disease...
...this context, Chávez has willingly become the Emir of the region, buying off Ecuadorian assets, Argentine debt, and Cuban doctors. In fact, his “brothers” in the region often adopt his dubious means, and not only in the rhetoric uttered by Morales. Argentine President Néstor Kichner has greatly benefited from a purposefully weak peso, high commodity prices, and huge export dividends resulting from “redistributing” taxes. However, although the federal state grows richer, that money is used to buy off regional caudillos and the poorer classes continue...
...Congress’s policy on gays in the military is unfortunate, but it is the reality that universities must face for the foreseeable future. Harvard should be prepared to work with this reality, in recognition of a broader national interest. Not only is realism the right policy to adopt in principle, it also has the happy side-effect of hastening the end of unreasonable discrimination against gays in the military. If our objections to recruiters are genuinely based on a concern for gay rights, we do those rights a greater service by welcoming recruiters back to campus...
...imagine anyone who didn't vote for his re-election would approve of his job performance." And aides felt the President had aced his recent appearances. The strategy--a latter-day version of "let Reagan be Reagan"--was to get Bush out of rigid, scripted settings and have him adopt a looser, more self-deprecating style so that people would see the casual side that had originally won the country over...