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Harvard’s leading lady, Drew Gilpin Faust, answered 20 questions about her new book, “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,” at an event last Thursday. Unfortunately, FM couldn’t make it (and the questions were vetted in advance), but here are the 20 questions we would have liked her to answer. 1) Before we get started, we have a problem set to finish. So, what happens to investment in the U.S. if a report states that the government deficit for 2008 will be higher than anticipated...
...traditionalism isn’t the answer, though, we’ve got to be careful of too-hopeful radicalism as well. Down the road at MIT, Simmons Hall, an award-winning building which opened in 2002, was designed with deliberately contorted spaces to force students to interact. Architects and critics love the design for its innovative and playful use of space...
...Fair enough. But is it really too much to ask athletes to make an effort to become informed, or to form an opinion on the controversies that will inevitably envelope the Beijing Games? "It seems like such an obvious answer to me," says Miranda. "Being part of the conversation doesn't cost a whole lot." Olympic athletes do have some spare time for a little reading, you know. "All young individuals should be aware of the situation, the circumstances in which they are becoming involved in," says John Carlos, the 1968 Olympic bronze-medalist whose Black Power salute...
...cannot answer that question," I replied. "But this was well known by leadership at multiple levels...
...remember walking out of the Pentagon shaking my head and wondering how in the world Rumsfeld could have expected me to believe him. Everybody knew that CENTCOM had issued orders to drawdown the forces. The Department of Defense had printed public affairs guidance for how the military should answer press queries about the redeployment. There were victory parades being planned. And in mid-May 2003, Rumsfeld himself had sent out some of his famous "snowflake" memorandums to Gen. Franks asking how the general was going to redeploy all the forces in Kuwait. The Secretary knew. Everybody knew...