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...Abbas is campaigning for leadership of the Palestinians, a people living under occupation and whose national identity is intimately bound up with the dispossession they suffered as a result of the conflict that followed the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 - and later through its expansion into territories captured in the war of 1967. Throughout his campaign he left no doubt he was seeking the mantle of Yasser Arafat, who had been the symbolic personification of the Palestinian national movement. As if to assure his electorate of his commitment to the legacy of his predecessor, Abbas immediately dedicated...
...can’t help but wonder: Is it right for one person to have so much power at Harvard? Probably not—a university shouldn’t be an autocracy. But this is a rather moot point, as the future of Harvard is bound to look a lot like Larry Summers’ plan...
...Jack Johnson whom Burns and Ward reveal was less a civil rights crusader than an Ayn Rand protagonist: a stubborn individualist who refused to be bound by society's rules or by any group's claim on him. He didn't merely want to transcend second-class status; he seemed to believe his talent placed him in a class above all. Blackness captures how tragically he was proved wrong--and how exhilaratingly, for moments in the ring, he proved himself right. --By James Poniewozik
...can’t help but wonder: Is it right for one person to have so much power at Harvard? Probably not—a university shouldn’t be an autocracy. But this is a rather moot point, as the future of Harvard is bound to look a lot like Larry Summers’ plan...
...community of nations, to its credit, reacted swiftly and decisively to a calamity unprecedented in size and scope. Organization of a multi-billion dollar aid effort for tens of millions in eleven different countries is not an enterprise to be taken on lightly, and such a vast undertaking is bound to have a few miscues and errors. While there have been reports of bottlenecks and delays in getting aid to the afflicted regions, the ruin foisted upon transportation infrastructure regrettably makes this all but inevitable...