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...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 deceptive façade of stability places the burden of action on the EU, because the U.S. feels only limited pressure to reform; the EU should be the prime mover in any transatlantic economic revival, acting quickly to fully realize its growth potential by coordinating a macroeconomic push to give some domestic substance to its fragile export-led recovery. Then the U.S., partially relieved from its role in the last fifteen years as the only industrialised world growth engine, could concentrate a much-needed attention on reducing its deficits. And the world would live as one?...
...years as one of the most familiar faces of American news. One audience member asked Rather about the media’s ability to balance national security interests with the public’s right to know. Rather said he thought sensitive information should be printed and that the burden ought to be placed on the government to prove why information should not be printed. Of the recent controversial Danish cartoons, Rather said that while he thinks the Danish newspaper was right to publish them, “it might not have been the right thing for everybody, everywhere...
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?...
...provisions that affect libraries were central to the compromise negotiated last month between the White House and key senators who had blocked the passage of the renewal. But these revisions did not substantively address concerns about the Patriot Act, according to Associate Professor of Government Barry C. Burden. “The changes were largely cosmetic,” he said. “It has been like many recent issues: something in which a compromise has been made without much of a change in what was originally intended,” Verba said. He added that Harvard?...