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That failure is stunning. The Arab lands lie at the heart of an arc of crisis from Marrakech to Bangladesh. Autocracies, often dynastic, remain the principal form of government; economies are stagnant; violence is a common way of resolving political debate. Last summer the U.N. Development Programme commissioned a panel of regional experts to write an Arab Human Development Report. It was perhaps the most important volume published in 2002. "The wave of democracy that transformed governance in most of Latin America and East Asia in the 1980s and Eastern Europe and much of Central Asia in the late 1980s...
...world." But one common European criticism of the Bush Administration has weight. That is the claim that the U.S has not thought through how to implement its Wilsonian agenda--how to weave political, diplomatic and military power into a sustained effort to achieve lasting change in the arc of crisis. Europeans look at an American military force spread all over the globe in support of an uncertain political goal, and they know exactly what it is they see. They see an empire--and they fear the worst...
...Relations argues, "Nobody wants to acquire an empire, but we are acquiring one. The general idea that we have to undertake nation building in Iraq is now established." So it is in Afghanistan and Palestine; put those three nations together, and the beginning of an American imperium in the arc of crisis is plainly visible...
...next three possessions, the Crimson opted to drive inside each time instead of kicking back to open players at the arc. That strategy was successful just once as senior Sam Winter put back a rebound off a Harvey missed layup that cut the deficit to 78-75 with 58 seconds left...
Harvard’s sharpest shooter in the first half turned out to be sophomore guard Kevin Rogus, who has made 60 percent from behind the arc this year. Rogus hit threes on consecutive possessions with his first two touches of the ball to pull Harvard to its last one-point deficit of the afternoon 8:33 into the game...