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...Iraqis are looking forward.” Unfortunately, 10 days after Saddam’s plunge through the trapdoor of the gallows, al-Rubaie’s prediction that Saddam’s death would be a unifying event for Iraq—as it should have been??rings hollow. Saddam’s status as one of this and last century’s most ruthless tyrants has not been brought into question, nor should it ever. Instead, al-Rubaie’s prediction seems laughable because Saddam’s execution was overrun by the endless...
Enter a Harvard dining hall today and one can hear the verdant buzz of college students, pursuing their activities in peace, and remember: this should not be—and has never been??the sound of wartime Harvard. This is the bubble at its worst, feigning the bliss of peacetime. My guess is that tragically, it will take another 9-11 to change that...
...spans one side of the transept, and a row of squatting students spans the other. On nice days, a few students will sit on the steps of Memorial Hall to eat. This is a far cry from the days of Loker, which—dreary as it may have been??gave students the chance to (gasp) sit at a table to eat lunch. Now University Hall says that the Queen’s Head Pub will not be complete until sometime in the spring, delaying the day that Fly-By can return to Loker...
Several prominent figures who delivered past Gordon lectures at Harvard have been??or have gone on to be—heads of state. The list includes President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia this year; then-President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique in 2004; President Festus G. Mogae of Botswana in 2000; former British Prime Minister John Major in 1999; and former President George H.W. Bush in 1998. And it appears that Pataki aspires to the title of president as well. While he has not officially announced a bid for his party’s nomination in 2008, his political...
It’s a reputation that Harvard is working hard to change. While administrators insist that the standards for tenure haven’t been??and shouldn’t be—lowered, they say that Harvard is working harder to treat every junior faculty member like a potential tenure candidate...