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...point, there actually wasn’t that much of it. Where were the student protesters after the last Faculty Meeting? Where were the petitions? Sure, a group of Larry-lovers had some plans to stage a sit-in at the Faculty Club, but by and large, the whole affair has been met with one big collective shrug from the undergraduate population. It’s not that everyone’s happy he’s gone—far from it—but most undergrads don’t really know (or care about) the details. Perhaps...
...Although I hold no brief for Mittal, the tone of the Europeans in this whole affair is decidedly racist. Let us not forget that "new" India has a civilization several centuries older than "old" Europe's. A little competition seems to bring out the worst in some people! Vandana Joshi Accra, Ghana...
...Perishable Good I agree with Joe Klein's column "Democracy, the morning after" [Feb. 6], which lashed out at President George W. Bush's "love affair with democracy" and its unintended consequences. Democracy, whether American or God's gift, can't be exported like a product; it requires preconditions. During the cold war, the U.S. created and maintained many ruthless and undemocratic regimes that were eventually overthrown by their citizens. During my graduate work in the U.S. 30 years ago, I read in one of the prescribed political-science texts that the U.S. had no formal foreign policy...
...send guard Brian Grandieri to the line and deprive the Crimson of the center’s services in the final minute. All of Cusworth’s fouls were accumulated after halftime, due to officials making more calls with the heightening of tension in the back-and-forth affair. “I could tell you I don’t think I really had five fouls,” Cusworth said. “I think I had less than that if you really counted them.”Penn, which entered the game averaging...
...having by now seen several U.S. prisons, as did De Tocqueville - he finds representative of America's vindictive attitude toward incarceration. Like De Tocqueville, Lévy encounters many of the leading lights of the day: George W. Bush ("a cunning child"), Hillary Clinton (driven by the Monica Lewinsky affair, he implausibly surmises), Barack Obama (impressive in every way), Sharon Stone (angry at Bush), Warren Beatty ("intelligent and precise"), Norman Mailer (at 82, "eyes fixed on eternity"), Samuel Huntington (whose Hispanophobia alarms him) and Woody Allen who, when Lévy gets personal, snaps, "She's not my daughter...