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...same faith that deflected [Woodrow] Wilson from entering hostilities in the Middle East spurred Bush to decide in favor of the war,” Oren writes. While Wilson’s deep-felt Christianity caused him to adopt a pacifistic attitude, President Bush, partly inspired by the attacks on the World Trade Center, has followed what Oren sees as a “crusader” ideology...
More than 20 years ago, when she was still a lecturer in law on the campus north of Harvard Yard, Elizabeth Bartholet left the confines of Cambridge for the muggy warmth of Lima, Peru.It was the fall of 1985, and she wanted to adopt a child. With little more than 40 $100 bills tucked into the bottom of her shoes, she boarded the airplane.But after she landed, Bartholet discovered over her three-month stay that many laws designed to help children were actually hurting them. Today, her first adopted son, Christopher, is 21 years old. But the laws handicapping...
...that she loses a lot of what makes her who she is. As a director, I tried to draw that quality out. While many theater directors are notorious for being entrenched in their own ideas for their plays, Jones says her previous experiences with directing have led her to adopt a less orthodox style. I’d be giving stage directions in the first couple of weeks, and they’d say, “Maybe it’d be funnier if I did this.” In high school, I never really got to engage...
...long the Kurds can be persuaded to remain part of a united Iraq. The overwhelming majority of Kurds would like to break free of Iraq and form an independent nation. So far, Kurdish leaders have been a constructive force in holding Iraq together, helping to write and adopt a national constitution that, although it gave great powers to the regions, has kept Iraq intact as a federal state. Kurds are serving at the highest levels of the Iraqi government, including as President, Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister...
...With Congress and at least two states investigating questionable relationships between colleges and lenders, Citibank this month became the first student loan provider to adopt this code of conduct, which also expressly bans revenue-sharing arrangements in which lenders route a percentage of student-loan revenue back to the schools that steered them the business. Cuomo announced last month his intention to sue Education Finance Partners for paying schools to include it on their list of preferred lenders. Since then, several universities have agreed to adhere to Cuomo's code and also to reimburse students nearly $3.3 million gleaned from...