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...writer Leo Tolstoy is in his waning days but still greatly celebrated, as a novelist and the touchstone of a community of "Tolstoyans," passive resisters living virtuous lives based on his ideals. The words "Some even regard him as a living saint" appear on the screen, which is generally bad news for the living saint, especially if he's got a wife around to point out all the ways in which her husband is actually flesh and blood who never takes out the garbage...
Harvard Law School students have heard nothing but bad news on the job front this year. After weathering a tough recruitment season, law students are now faced with a round of budget cuts that will worsen employment opportunities in the public sector as well. On Monday, Harvard Law School suspended the Public Service Initiative, a program that waived third-year tuition for law students who pledged to five years of public service after graduation. While budget cuts call for belt-tightening, it’s sad to see HLS’s Public Service Initiative disappear...
...band-of-brothers bond, the ethos of ultimate sacrifice is at the heart of military culture. If a President wants to send young people off to war, he must buy into that culture. It is not enough to construct the best argument - or the best policy - in a bad situation, as this President has done. (See pictures of life in the Afghan National Army...
...Administration make cases for and against each of the decisions the President has made. There is no completely convincing argument that 30,000 - or 40,000 - more troops will turn the tide in Afghanistan; you can make an argument, nearly as plausible, that they will make a bad situation worse - Afghans have, historically, not reacted well to tens of thousands of armed foreigners on their turf. (Which leads in turn to a counter-counterargument: we're not conquerors; we come bearing schools and wells, with the intention of leaving as soon as possible...
...many countries, economic reform can be a good thing. Even draconian changes to paper currency can help governments draw a line between "bad economic policies of the past, often after taming a hyperinflation," says Marcus Noland, an economist at Washington's Peterson Institute of International Economics. However, this being North Korea, one of the most repressive and impoverished nations in the world, that's not the case. The government announced that it would limit the amount an individual can exchange to just 100,000 won - or less than $40 at black-market exchange rates - and any amount above that threshold...