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...question from David Frost on al-Jazeera about Iraq's being "pretty much of a disaster" with the apparent agreement, "It has," his spokesman said no admission was intended.) So now his speeches take strange turns of logic around the hardest questions and are populated with straw men bred for easy defeat. Aides say he is frustrated. With good reason: the man who said "what counts is what works" has rendered himself unpersuasive and ineffective. He is counting down the days, knowing a large part of his foreign-policy legacy is failure...
...autocratic states like Saudi Arabia, students are taught to resent the United States during their formative years of schooling. And there certainly seems to be truth to this. But what about resentments emerging from Western, democratic regimes? I have long been skeptical that a virulent anti-Americanism could be bred in the classrooms of Western democracies. After all, central tenets of a Western, liberal education include a striving towards objectivity as well as the encouraging of independent enquiry among students. Unfortunately, my current enrollment in a seminar taught at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, has forced...
...Whether any modern children would be tempted to believe the parables served up on FKB is debatable in an age when kids are bred on cynicism. But back then, to me, growing up in a nice middle-class clan with a passing resemblance to the Andersons, the show had the ring of familiarity, if not of gospel truth. Though I didn?t always follow the precepts peddled by Jim and Margaret, I was raised on them. It wouldn?t be a stretch to say that FKB was the documentary of my 1950s - the way the '70s PBS series An American...
...ceiling with stacks upon stacks of dusty documents, reports and newspapers, any one of which he was magically able to locate at a moment's notice, although such notice was rarely necessary, because he seemed to have committed it all to memory. He smoked constantly, drank rarely, laughed easily, bred and raised German shepherds and drove a tiny, rattling Renault through whose floorboards you could see the road going by. I felt I knew him well, but I was wrong...
...Among other antiquarian choices, Professor Christopher P. Jones’ History B-09, “The Christian Revolution” is well regarded (but not taught this year). Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History Angeliki E. Laiou will lecture on the Crusades in B-11. Guessing the Greek-bred Laiou’s least-favorite Crusade should be easy (hint: it’s probably the Fourth!).Early modern history offers the Historical Studies-B student a renaissance and a reformation, though neither is being offered this year. Among the most popular courses from this period...