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...apparent advantages” of reason-based governance or continue to reap the fruits of violent religious conflict. My guess, though a reasonable one, is that they would prefer to argue over the existential limitations of enlightenment thinking since rational people tend not to burn, mutilate, rape, and blow-up other rational people. I appreciate Usmani’s call for Harvard to embrace humility, and would agree that the place reeks of entitlement and intellectually lazy self-congratulation. If he took some time off from the post-modernism and read a few history books, though, he would see that...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis | Title: Usmani's 'Revolution' Is Misguided | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...course, was born in Danzig, as Gdansk was known before it reverted to Poland at the end of World War II. And while Walesa became internationally renowned for leading the shipyard strike that led to the formation of the Solidarity trade union and proved to be a decisive blow in the collapse of Polish communism, Grass was honored for his passionate and clear-eyed excoriation of Germany's Nazi past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grass and Walesa Forgive in Gdansk | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

...Frankly, we’re not going to blow it,” he said. “We want to keep working with you over a very long time. So this has to be a mutually constructive and beneficial relationship...

Author: By Laura A. Moore and Michelle L. Quach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Boston Approves Allston Complex | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...returns a number of starters from the team of a year ago, and despite a blow-out loss to Yale two weeks ago, Crimson coach Tim Murphy said he expects another difficult road trip this time...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Looks For Big Win Over Big Red | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...social conservative base a bigger share of the vote. But anti-incumbent sentiment could cost him: He began the race with a lead that made him seem like the incumbent right out of the gate. There's still time for one of the candidates to land a deadly blow or a bombshell to land; more likely, in a race that seems cautious by Louisiana standards, any surprises will come from the voters themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Second Coming of Bobby Jindal | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

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