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...culture of success at Harvard is often railed against; I know I’m not the first. But it’s interesting to see how that culture we generally adopt to gain entrance here tends to color social and extracurricular life during our four years...
...Iraqification" only works on a security level if it occurs with a transfer of political authority to Iraqis. That may be why Ambassador Paul Bremer is now talking of accelerating the process by which Iraqis adopt a new constitution and elect a government. But constitution-making is a deeply contentious business in Iraq, which has, pretty much since it was constituted as a nation-state by the British after World War I, been ruled by the Sunni minority. The Shiite majority, naturally, insist on nothing short of a majoritarian democracy, while the Kurds demand the right to govern northern Iraq...
...Cambridge needs to adopt a set of Educational Frameworks to establish what is to be learned by our students. I support the State Frameworks in the absence of anything better. The choice of what curriculum should be used to achieve these goals should be left up to the teachers...
Neither the book nor the in-flight movies are holding your attention. You're sick of playing solitaire on your laptop. Now's the perfect time, then, to try meditating. You don't need to adopt the lotus position-just put on the eye mask, pull up the blanket and empty your mind. Whether you manage five minutes or 50, a session of contemplation will help reduce stress and get you to your destination in a better mood. Everyone else will think you're snoozing but you're actually meditating on these selected insights from Eastern spiritual sources, past...
...country in question has a relatively accountable and democratic political system, then the answer is no—we should allow those states to adopt or reject domestic policies as they see fit. We ought not to assume that a nation’s elected representatives are less concerned with their citizens’ well being than we are. On the other hand, we cannot assume such beneficence from regimes that are not accountable to their people. There is doubtless much room for improvement in the domestic policies of nations such as China, and we should use the carrot...