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...Realpolitik, perfected and made honorable in modern times by the likes of Henry A. Kissinger ’50, is something that diplomats aspire to, not shirk from. There is ample evidence that such diplomacy often comes back to haunt its perpetrators–for example, the consequences of America??s abetment of the mujahideen in Afghanistan in the 1980s. However, to use such evidence as an argument against realpolitik is to miss the point. The argument cannot be that morally bankrupt diplomacy is ultimately unprofitable. It must simply be that it is wrong...
Posing in front of a wall in Memorial Church, John H. Updike ’54 looks like the archetypal embodiment of New England aristocracy. One of America??s most prolific writers, Updike also togs up rather nicely. But is he all that different than so many other men posing on the covers of their books? The dust jacket blurb is surprisingly humble until it reaches the end: “Reading ‘Due Considerations’ is like taking a cruise that calls at many ports, with a witty, sensitive and articulate guide aboard?...
...book, “Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America??s Health Care System,” sought to “take a very complicated body of knowledge that I care about and explain it to people who are very bright but not experts in the field,” said Cutler, a former adviser to the Clinton administration...
...member of the Spee, one of Harvard’s exclusive all-male final clubs, he’s proved his ability to mix seamlessly with the sons of America??s social and economic elite...
...sophomore year, Barnhill read “Our Kind of People: Inside America??s Black Upper Class,” a book about the black elite’s yachting clubs and the cotillions they held for their debutante daughters. Barnhill was shocked...