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...Bashar al-Assad issued a decree formally recognizing Lebanese sovereignty, Syria and Lebanon formally established diplomatic ties for the first time since both nations gained their independence in the 1940s. Political and military tensions between the two countries have increased in recent years amid a string of assassinations of anti-Syrian Lebanese officials. International observers are hopeful that the normalization of relations will help bring stability to the region...
When asked about Carter’s receipt of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, Dershowitz said, “the Nobel Prize can be very political. Part of the reason he won the prize was probably anti-Semitic sentiment...
...nation’s most prestigious university is no doubt lamentable—especially so as the current Core, with its multicultural distribution requirements, transitions into a general education program that leaves no place for dead languages in its “globalized” curriculum.Despite the anti-classical bias of today’s educators, a rudimentary knowledge in both Latin and Greek language and literature would well serve the cause of liberal learning and help produce more cosmopolitan and more thoroughly well-rounded graduates.While both Greek and Latin are “dead” languages, their usefulness...
...assets as a candidate. “We finally have the opportunity to elect a president who is very smart, who wants to know the truth,” he said. Mack contrasted Obama with the Republicans, who he said are “running an anti-intellectual campaign masquerading as a populist campaign.” Harvard College Republicans President Colin J. Motley ’10 said that although the Republicans are not planning a similar fundraising event for McCain, all of their meetings involve hosting a Republican speaker or faculty member, with past guests including professor...
...Obama on his blackboard. Other situations, however, are more ambiguous. Consider the class of first graders at a San Francisco charter school, which recently had a school-sponsored outing to attend the wedding of their lesbian teacher. Three weeks from now, California voters will vote on Proposition 8, an anti-gay marriage ballot initiative, and proponents of that measure decry the field trip as overtly political. "This is promoting same-sex marriage and indoctrinating young kids," says Frank Schubert, co-manager of the Yes on 8 Campaign. Liz Jaroflow, principal of Creative Arts Charter School, told the San Francisco Chronicle...