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...9/11 brought this home dramatically. American embassies and American businesses are being attacked worldwide. Opting out is not an option. To make the long-term burden sustainable you need a broad alliance, to spread the load, to reduce excessive burdens on yourself. You need others to agree on the basic causes and solutions. It's not poverty, it's not deprivation, it's something more fundamental, a resurgence of Arab and Islamic pride, and a belief that their time has come. The objective must be to reassure and persuade moderate Muslims, the rationalists and modernizers, which I believe the majority...
...Still, despite his more relaxed demeanor, when Time spoke to him for nearly five hours over two days this fall, it was clear that neither age nor heart surgery 10 years ago have changed Lee's basic personality: sharp intelligence allied with an unsentimental, almost clinical rationality and supreme confidence in his own judgment. But there is another side to Lee that has been blossoming in recent years - that of the geopolitical thinker and analyst, a role he clearly relishes. The man who once concerned himself with every aspect of Singaporeans' lives - right down to who they should marry...
...women entrepreneurs getting in the business of giving back? "Women have a special gift for friendship," says Clare Brett Smith, an executive at Aid to Artisans, based in Hartford, Conn., which helps match U.S. entrepreneurs with artisans overseas. The other component? "Trust. It's one of the basic elements of a decent business...
...able to do it.”The problem is not isolated to Harvard. Professor Stilgoe says that few colleges and high schools treat geography with any seriousness. This is particularly problematic because map reading, the correlation of the three-dimensional world to a two-dimensional schematic, is a basic measure of visual intelligence. He is disappointed that the College Board has not more proactively encouraged schools to promote this type of visual education. He states: “The SAT people refuse to include a test of visual intelligence. Few undergraduates, even Harvard undergraduates, see such tests until they...
...goal of becoming a screenwriter and director.“I think it is important to learn and internalize the concepts of filmmaking as opposed to video, even though it will be soon outdated,” Patino says, “because it runs on the basic principles that video is predicated upon. Learning filmmaking is like learning to drive stick shift.” There are two different sections: one is taught on Mondays and Wednesdays by Moss; the other is taught on Tuesdays and Thursdays by Hooker Professor of the Visual Arts Alfred Guzzetti. All the classes...