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Nevertheless, ubiquitous PSLMer cum Katz Committee member Benjamin L. McKean ’02 doesn’t seem to appreciate the heads-up from Summers. McKean dubbed the addition “outrageous.” What’s McKean’s beef? He told a Crimson reporter that he thought the whole community should have been consulted before the deans’ council added the “interpretation...
...town of Yong Jing in northern China is "so small that when the local canteen prepared a dish of beef and onions the smell reached the nose of every single inhabitant." And the 17-year-old narrator of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Knopf; 197 pages) and his friend Luo, 18, city youths from Sichuan's capital, Chengdu, are dispatched to a small village so remote it is a long day's journey from Yong Jing. It is 1971, midway during the Cultural Revolution, and they are the unwitting - and unwilling - assignees to a program of re-education through...
...energy-related economic interests has dictated U.S. involvement in plenty of unwanted scrapes, and America's moral legitimacy in the Muslim world has eroded accordingly. The U.S.' oil-fueled alliance with Saudi Arabia was what turned bin Laden against America in the first place; the arguable legitimacy of his beef certainly hasn't damaged his following...
...size of a fire extinguisher. We then headed out to lunch to reflect on our day as a group. One need not have psychic gifts to guess where the members of the gun club elected to go to fill their empty stomachs—yes, we feasted on beef and beer at the Longhorn Steak House...
...What can the U.S. do about it? Karzai has appealed for the international community to beef up its 4,000-strong peacekeeping force and extend its operations beyond Kabul. But the response, thus far, has been tepid. Although the U.S. remains opposed to participating, the State Department has proposed that the U.S. offer logistical and intelligence support - and offer rescue missions - to entice others to send more troops. But the Pentagon prefers accelerated efforts to build a new national army for Afghanistan, which the U.S. would help train, organize and equip in order to allow Afghans...