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Associate Professor of Government Barry C. Burden wrote in an e-mail that he was surprised to see more students respond “neutral” or “don’t know” for the question about Summers than for the question about FAS members’ handling of the situation...
...would have expected precisely the opposite, just in the way that it’s easier for the public to track the president than Congress,” Burden wrote...
...Baghdad, Khalilzad, 54, has earned the respect of both his Iraqi counterparts and his bosses in Washington for the enthusiasm and savvy he brings to the world's toughest job. "Right place, right guy, at the right time," says a U.S. official involved in Iraq policy. And yet the burden of trying to find a political solution to an increasingly brutal, costly and unpopular war is straining even Khalilzad's relentless optimism. He says he believes Iraq is "heading in the right direction," but those who know him say he is aware that he may be powerless to stop Iraq...
...prove that my story was nothing but irrelevant hearsay. I tried to describe what I had seen in Vukovar as simply and clearly as possible. It may have been the most important thing I will ever do. After my testimony was over I felt as if a great burden had been lifted. For me, the Balkan wars were finally over. Now I could go home...
This seems to be a pretty obvious tenet for general education, but you’d be hard pressed to find this view articulated in the pages of the final report of the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR). The burden of this ongoing curricular review lies on the shoulders of the Faculty, whose enthusiasm and care for research and education must outlast the students who cycle in and out of this College in rapid succession. But why would Sandel, a leading member of the HCCR’s Committee on General Education, articulate this now, three years after the review?...