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...fall of Baghdad and on a day of Senate hearings on the progress of the war. Half a world away, the streets of the Iraqi capital were empty under a military curfew to prevent car bombings. Down Pennsylvania Avenue, Democrats and Republicans competed over who could describe the early conduct of the war in the most devastating terms, even as they debated where to go from here and what it would take to get there. This was war and remembrance in three-part harmony. Above all, the doubt and division toll the bell for the soldier whose valor, at least...
...transnational human rights standards. Ruggie is one of 190 fellows selected this year to receive a portion of the $8.2 million in fellowship grants, an average of $40,000 for each fellow. Ruggie will be using his funding to take a sabbatical from teaching beginning on July 1 to conduct research and interviews for his upcoming book. “I plan to write a book on how to improve human rights performance of companies, focusing particularly on transnational corporations,” Ruggie said. Ruggie said he plans to evaluate not only the voluntary, but also the national...
After failing to draw the numbers necessary to conduct official votes at almost a third of its meetings in the past four years, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) considered lowering its standards for attendance yesterday. Too bad old habits die hard. Not enough professors turned out to yesterday’s meeting to take a binding vote on the new measure, which would have lowered the quorum—the number of attendees required for an official Faculty vote—from one sixth of the professoriate’s approximately 700 members to one eighth. The development...
...call on the [Republican Club] to uphold its own mission by denouncing Rove’s infamous tactics and welcoming him as an example of the actions of the past rather than as a model for the future conduct of their members,” Jarret A. Zafran ’09, president of the Harvard College Democrats, said in the statement...
...interview anyone Chinese who agrees to talk. "They still don't have any idea what is going to hit them or how bad they will look to the outside world," comments one senior Western academic who has close ties to the upper echelons of the Beijing establishment. If its conduct over the past year is anything to go by, Beijing's instinctive reaction to new problems will be to use its heavy hand once more...