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...necessarily a proponent of it. “There have been simulations that support this,” he says. “There has been a prediction that this will happen by 2050.” But he also says that other predictions directly conflict with this assessment. When pressed for his personal opinion, he is firm. “If you asked me whether I believed that theory, my answer would be no,” he says...
...hating Iraq,” he said, adding that he agreed with most of what Galbraith said about the state of Iraq. The event, which was the first of its kind, brought together Fulbright alumni and students and scholars from the Boston area to discuss topics such as international conflict, development, contemporary Islam, energy, and global warming. “Our main goal was just to get the very different parts of the Fulbright community together,” said event organizer Shoba Ramanadhan, a Fulbright alum and PhD student at the Harvard School of Public Health. The Fulbright program...
Pretend you don’t know what “conflict of interest” means: So what if your managing editor is also the front-man of the band you prominently profile in your music section? It doesn’t mean you can’t still ask hard-hitting questions like, “What drives you to put out an industry level production while handling the rigors of the number one university in the country...
...relying more on the training of Iraqi forces to extricate U.S. troops from Iraq. It could resemble the U.S. strategy in El Salvador in the 1980s, when U.S. troops were dispatched to that Central American nation to train its fighting forces but didn't get involved in the conflict themselves. Whatever policy the U.S. eventually endorses, Gates - unlike Rumsfeld - won't have to cast a nervous eye into his own rearview mirror and wonder about how Congress and the press might react to such a change in strategy. "Gates is in great shape," Korb says, "because he wasn't here...
...latent conflict between the postmodern hydra’s twin heads of diversity and choice is therefore resolved quite neatly. Both diversity and choice serve a larger, if largely subconscious goal in the contemporary Academy: a full realization of existential equality...