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...took from his time fighting in the Civil War, according to Bass Professor of English Louis Menand, is that “certitude leads to violence”—that a dogmatic confidence in one’s beliefs and an unwillingness to compromise begets conflict and war. If Holmes, a former Harvard professor, were to return to Cambridge today and look to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), he would be disappointed to see that certitude has wracked this institution he loved so dearly, leading to four years of political violence, rancor, and quagmire during...
Halberstam eventually left the Tennessean to take a job with The New York Times. After serving as a foreign correspondent in Africa, Halberstam was sent to Vietnam to cover the ongoing conflict, making him one of the first full-time Western newspaper journalists working in the country. His coverage of the war and the overthrow of the Diem government won him the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. But this coverage also drew death threats from those opposed to his unflattering depictions of American involvement in Vietnam...
...which may become a book. (His working title? “The Historian and the Clones.”) He will also continue a longtime fascination with the Middle East, embarking on a project this October to study the efficacy of non-governmental efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...schools have strict rules about professors partnering with companies that they have a financial stake in, Heller said that it is possible for such relationships to be appropriate and beneficial. “I’m not saying it’s automatically devoid of conflict of interest, I’m saying that getting the motivation of commercialization into the lab in the university is not a bad thing,” Heller said. “It’s hard to see where that would generate any built-in conflict of interests...
...comparison publicly last week as the Administration acknowledged that it was looking into keeping long-term bases in Iraq. The appeal of the comparison is obvious: the U.S. has had large numbers of troops in South Korea for more than half a century, without engaging in a major conflict once the Korean War ended...