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...Many people have defended Obama better than I can here, so I’ll be brief: What Obama was (maybe) getting at in his comments was what Marx called the idiocy of rural life—a much abused phrase, one that conservatives such as Kristol love to cite...
...Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” is inconsistent with Harvard University’s prerogative of social progressivism. The policy is so inconsistent with our institution’s humanitarian principles, in fact, that many members of the Harvard community correctly cite the discriminatory policy as the most compelling reason to continue prohibiting ROTC on Harvard’s campus. ROTC was banned from this end of Cambridge several decades ago, during the height of campus dissent over Vietnam. Our sense of tolerance for political ideologies has hopefully evolved since that time, but certainly...
...feels less threatened by the EU than it does by NATO. For example, in February, Russia opposed Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia and the replacement of U.N. and NATO forces by EU administration. When Putin explained the reasoning behind this, surprisingly he did not cite the expansion of EU influence in the Balkans, but instead accused NATO of too much ambition in trying to replace the U.N. Furthermore, Russia enjoys good relations with Germany, a major EU state. Chancellor Merkel was the first foreign head-of-state Russian President-elect Dmitry Medvedev met with after...
...deep sense of moral rectitude about the process by which the decisions were made and then communicated to applicants. If only the College had made up its mind sooner, then perhaps the time, energy, and money that applicants put into their application might not have been wasted. Opponents cite the costs of re-taking standardized tests and ordering transcripts, which won’t be recouped by prospective transfers, even though Harvard has agreed to refund the full application...
...strangeness of what Americans like. And I saw the real American Chinese restaurant in a real town of 750 in the foothills of the Appalachians and I was like, “I think I can write a book on Chinese restaurants!”THC: You cite in your book the impressive statistic that the U.S. has more Chinese restaurants than McDonalds, Burger Kings, and Kentucky Fried Chickens combined. What is it about Chinese food that makes it such a substantive part of the American diet? JL: Well, it’s the most prolific food on the planet?...