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While the basic objective that led American troops into Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq remains noble--projecting democratic ideals--subsequent developments have proved the Washington strategists wrong. Once the immediate, specific objective has been achieved, it is time to get out, leaving it to Afghans and Iraqis to sort out their internal problems. They can rebuild their countries and manage themselves. Prolonging those missions only weakens...
...millions of dollars of advertisement.”A spokesman for Simon & Schuster, one of five major publishers on whose behalf AAP filed its lawsuit, said Google’s current practice of scanning books without permission constitutes a violation of copyright law.“At the very basic level, we feel that it is simply wrong for Google to put any of our books online without the permission of the creator. This is a violation of our constitutional protected copyright,” Simon & Schuster spokesman Adam Rothberg said.But Drummond defended the legality of Google?...
Readers will find much that is stylistically familiar in Miss Manners' Basic Training: Communication (Crown; 179 pages; $15)--referring to herself in the third person, often amusing in a column but overly arch at book length, and using the locution Gentle Reader. The text is largely a response to letters Martin has allegedly received. It starts off jauntily enough with what Miss Manners likes about life on the Internet: "Cyberspace is like space on the open seas, free of some constraints that should be observed on land." Watch out, though. Already gentility is rearing its well-coiffed head...
...Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” will be delivering this semester’s Alain LeRoy Locke Lectures. The LeRoy lecture series is co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, the Department of African and African American Studies, and Basic Civitas Books (a division of the Perseus Books Group). They are held in honor of the Harlem Renaissance luminary and Harvard scholar Alain Leroy Locke, and their purpose is “to bring distinguished persons to deliver lectures on topics related to the field of African-American Culture...
Unfortunately, short of reducing concentration requirements, there is little that the College can do to address these basic problems. The College should encourage departments to make an effort to find equivalently rigorous programs abroad, possibly by establishing more direct relations with other universities. An expansion of Harvard-affiliated programs abroad is particularly called for when a given location offers unique educational opportunities, such as tropical marine biology. Furthermore, the Office of International Programs (OIP) could do more to consolidate the process of applying to study abroad for science concentrators...