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...know our professor, Dr. Karin B. Michels of the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Michels was obliging enough to join the students for dinner in Annenberg after each seminar, where she could talk to us individually, granting us attention rarely given freshmen by professors. Feeling comfortable and confident amongst both my peers and professor, I was able to speak up in class without temerity...
...years I have spent listening to Iranian politicians fight viciously amongst themselves, I can report that a lack of candor is not a problem here. It is a mistake to elevate such social manners as taarof to an essential characteristic of political behavior. If an Iranian politician hedges a question, replies ambiguously, or reverses an earlier position, there are usually concrete reasons involved, and it would be more instructive to focus on those than a slippery Persian tendency toward dissembling...
...memories of the early part of this summer: Don Saúl, Don Celso, and Don Rubén. Each of them owns a small plot of land in the rural Pacific town of El Pumpo, where cattle grazing was profitable until the same plots of land became divided amongst increasing numbers of children. The next generation of Guatemalans in this town only has three viable ways to live: working in Guatemala City under dreadful conditions, taking the long, uncertain trip to the United States, or getting involved in the perilous drug trade. How’s that for opportunity? Good...
...participating in U.S.-brokered peace talks with Israel over the fate of the Golan Heights; Iraq was still ruled by Saddam Hussein's tyranny, which also functioned to limit Iran's regional ambitions; and the Oslo peace process offered Israel and the Palestinians the prospect of peace. Today dialogue amongst the various parties is rare, even as the prospects for U.S. success on key issues such as stabilizing Iraq, fighting al-Qaeda and preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons may hinge in no small part on its ability to stop the Israel-Hizballah crisis from spinning out of control...
...debates in both the House and Senate this week over Iraq policy were in many ways simply political grandstanding. In the Senate, while Democrats were debating amongst themselves a proposal that would call for some kind of graduated troop withdrawal, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, the No. 2 leader of the Senate Republicans, rushed a proposal to the floor calling for the withdrawal of troops by the end of the year, hoping to expose the split among Democrats. Only six Democrats voted for the provision. The House, meanwhile, spent more than 13 hours debating a non-binding resolution, framed...