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...College dean’s authority.To be sure, we would be remiss to ignore the scarcity of undergraduate administrative experience in Hammond’s résumé. Her academic credentials are undeniably impressive, and she has accomplished a great deal for Harvard in her role within the central administration. Harvard is lucky to have an administrator of her talent and dedication among its ranks. Yet her responsibilities as Senior Vice Provost have had little to do directly with undergraduate administration, and she enters her new position during a period of significant transition at the College. There are legitimate...
...calculate this coldly—and neither do the contestants on reality shows—but we live in a world that both Shakespeare and sociologist Erving Goffman compared to a theatrical stage. When we are all acting through life, figuring out what roles are likely to thrive is central to achieving success. And reality shows offer dozens of controlled experiments in narrative creation. Their outcomes provide troves of data to help us end up as Horatios instead of Hamlets, McCains instead of Giulianis, Jordins instead of Melindas...
Individual sovereignty is perhaps the most central principle underlying the founding of our nation. Yet a recent report by the Pew Center on the States shows that over 1 in 100 American adults have lost their freedom and are incarcerated, making the United States the world leader in per capita imprisonment. Defenders of this startling practice maintain that if one in 100 Americans are imprisoned, it is because one in 100 Americans has committed a criminal act that merits incarceration. It seems implausible that this enormous economic and social burden is justified. Although some argue that high rates of incarceration...
...historically feckless state and its even more dysfunctional military. Back then, Washington "was seriously considering whether the FARC might win," U.S. Ambassador to Colombia William Brownfield told TIME recently. But the Clinton and Bush II Administrations, still constrained by bitter memories of America's involvement in the Vietnam and Central American conflicts of a generation ago, couldn't stick their hands too directly into Colombia's four-decade-old civil war. What they could do, however, was cloak counter-insurgency as drug interdiction. It's a strategy backed by Colombia's conservative and widely popular President Alvaro Uribe, who since...
SIIC has other reasons to dislike the vetoed legislation. A more powerful central government, as set out in the Provincial Powers law, would further benefit Sadr's bloc, which has its power base in central Iraq around Baghdad. SIIC's strength lies in Iraq's oil-rich southern provinces; thus a looser federation, with maximum autonomy for the regions, benefits it most...