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...level—his face becomes contorted with desire and fear whenever they share the screen. These scenes make it clear that “War”’s title refers as much to the rival impulses bearing on Hasan as to the larger political conflict in which he is involved. By exploring the gentler facets of Hasan’s personality, the film reminds us that its protagonist is no monster, but a man with wholly human capacities for love and hate alike. Utlimately, “War”’s ambition outstrips...
...urban centers. My imagination bubbled over with fantasies of stress-free afternoons in independent coffee shops, far away from the stress, work, and worry of Harvard College.As one can well imagine, my arrival here constituted a bit of a rude awakening.Early in my freshman year, extracurricular commitments began to conflict with each other, and my inbox started overflowing with the e-detritus of untold many open lists. I realized quickly that free time at Harvard is really an illusion, and that a choice among the Square’s three Starbucks franchises doesn’t amount to much free...
...Harvard Medical School; Jay W. Lorsch, Kirstein professor of human relations at Harvard Business School; Tom A. Rapoport, professor of cell biology at Harvard Medical School; Robert I. Rotberg, president of the World Peace Foundation and director of the Kennedy School of Government’s Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution; and Stephen M. Walt, academic dean of the Kennedy School of Government...
...Nobel Prize in Physics. This prize will be the 43rd Nobel awarded to a member of the Harvard faculty. The award, officially called the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, honors Schilling “for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis,” according to a press release from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which gives the award. Famous for applying game-theory analysis to the study of strategic interaction, especially during the Cold War era as the U.S. was on the brink of nuclear...
...struggling to frame the war in a way that will evince patience. At summer's end, President Bush gave a trio of speeches equating the war on terrorism to World War II--given that both pitted freedom against "a murderous ideology." He compared Iraq last week to yet another conflict that enjoyed bipartisan support. "Islamic radicalism, like the ideology of communism, contains inherent contradictions that doom it to failure," he declared. A White House official involved in preparing the 40-min. speech said it was designed to describe the enemy more precisely than in the past: "The attacks...