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...reduce the chance that we will have to go to war with Iran or North Korea. Rattled by a lively pro-democracy movement, Ayatollah Khamenei and his cohorts know that only through their control over the military can they retain control over a people who despise them. But in comparison to the Arsenal of Democracy that will set up shop next door in Iraq during and after a war, their trump card looks like playground equipment and they will have no choice but to adopt a more pro-American outlook. Similarly, war against North Korea is highly undesirable...
According to its authors, the scope of medical errors suggested by the Harvard survey is conservative in comparison to a 2000 report by the Institute of Medicine based solely on medical records. That study estimated between 44,000 and 98,000 Americans die each year as a result of doctors’ mistakes...
When planners recommended relocating the museums, Cuno says, they based their idea on a crude comparison of the total square footage the museums occupy in Harvard Square with the amount of space in Allston that could be set aside for the arts...
...plus” to students from diverse backgrounds, including racial minorities. Justice Lewis F. Powell, expressing the judgment of the court, cited Harvard’s process as a legal way of promoting educational diversity because it did not “insulate the individual from comparison with all other candidates for the available seats.” Harvard’s admissions system, where every application is evaluated individually, is the ideal toward which other colleges should strive...
...mild-mannered, professorial sort than a travel writer famous for his savage wit. This is, after all, the man who dismissed Australia's capital with the epithet "Canberra? Why Wait for Death?" Of Bradford, England, he opined that its sole purpose is "making every place else look better by comparison." And he doesn't hesitate to skewer his fellow Americans. Bryson's first book, a 1989 exploration of small-town U.S.A. called The Lost Continent, included the following comment about a gaggle of pushy pensioners: "[I was] comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead." One reviewer...