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...hands. Borrowing a page from the cia's proxy war against the Soviets, which used the mujahedin in Afghanistan, the ISI in 1989 began encouraging Islamic-militant outfits inside Pakistan to cross over the mountains and snipe at Indian troops in Kashmir. As a guerrilla tactic, it was brilliant. On any given day, more than 300,000 Indian troops are busy chasing 2,000 Kashmiri and Pakistani militants up and down the Himalayas...
...play is brilliant. Intense in its consequences, moving in its humanity, bold in its controvery, the play never ceases to grip its audience. By skillfully avoiding easy answers to the questions that it raises, the play never disappoints...
...geeks deem safe listening. Rather than following through on the music’s forebears, they stretch it to its outer limits, showing off its capacity for outward expansion. Screw soul, they seem to say—theirs is the sound of extraterrestrial mechs appropriating hip hop for twisted, brilliant experiments...
...stories like these are few and far between. Overall, I could not have asked for a more intelligent and inquisitive population of students, better facilities in which to teach them or better faculty advisers and colleagues. I was fortunate to have made brilliant and generous friends in just about every category of race, class, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual persuasion, as well as a few who have yet to be persuaded. I felt continually grateful to be at a supportive institution rather than the university at which one senior professor made his advisees tar his roof...
...danger of celebrity is that it can confer a prominence that outlasts merit. In an academic institution like Harvard, this point is less obvious, because Harvard’s fame tends to attract brilliant men and women anyway. At the same time, Harvard actively recruits celebrity professors, in part to perpetuate its image, and this can run contrary to the University’s academic mission. A celebrity professor may win awards, go to important parties and attract the best grad-student lackeys, but none of these things necessarily contribute anything to pioneering intellectual thought...