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Presidents of the U.S. don't get scared. They get security. But if the murder of an American diplomat in Karachi last week underlined the fact that George W. Bush was on one of his riskier foreign trips, the President was probably unaware he was skirting not two conflict zones - Afghanistan and Pakistan - but three. In India, Bush toured the southern city of Hyderabad to praise an example of everything that's right about the nation. Like its neighbor Bangalore, this ancient Muslim fort town is a hub for science and technology. But Hyderabad is also an example of what...
...reasons. First, in any given semester, the number of courses that satisfy a particular Core area tends to be very small. In the fall of this academic year, for example, there were only four moral reasoning courses offered. This is particularly problematic for seniors who, with a schedule conflict or two, are often forced to take a specific Core course in order to graduate.Second, as the French revolution courses illustrate, it is illogical for only one of two similar courses to count for Core credit. This is especially true because Core courses tend to have narrower focuses than departmental survey...
...been heralded as a beloved and “universally trusted” figure, to cite one Crimson pullquote. Yet what I remember is that, in our day, we undergrads viewed him as a quintessential “suit”—a remote, conflict-averse administrator who many students might not have recognized if they bumped into him in the Yard. In Crimson editorials, we chided him for not pushing the Corporation to pull all Harvard investments from South Africa, for fighting with the support staff union over their pay, and for wanting to retain...
Third, the apportionment of seats would create unnecessary inter-faculty conflict as faculties and departments within faculties compete for influence. Some may recommend a meeting of Harvard’s full faculty, but as Harvard has 2,500 non-medical faculty and 9,000 medical school faculty, such a body would simply be too large to be effective...
...even as the events of the past week underscored the need for indigenous units who would be willing to intervene in such a civil conflict, they have also made any such withdrawal an even greater challenge. The strategy for drawing down U.S. force levels, after all, has been predicated on replacing them with Iraqi units. But the sectarian upsurge has also highlighted the troubling extent to which many of the men in the most capable Iraqi security units remain loyal to ethnic and sectarian agendas. Shi'ite leader al-Hakim, for instance, had initially blamed the Samarra bombing in part...