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...power and the respect due to them while allowing Beah to bring the story into focus. And that intimate focus, ultimately, is what makes Beah’s book so important. Beah is no longer a number in newsprint, but a name with a face that forces us to confront the horrifying realities of distant conflicts we’d like to ignore...
...said that somewhere deep in your soul, you're still not really comfortable with American themes, that even as you confront American society in some of those films, you're still thinking in Dutch...
...campaign is running high in France itself, and many émigrés are following it closely. Jozan, the M.B.A. student in London, believes the stakes are significant. "The question is, do we have another five years' delay or do we take the bull by the horns and confront the big issues?" he asks. "It's fine to debate, but France needs a leader. It needs to adjust to a new world. If it wants to be competitive, it needs to move...
...report recommends swapping it out for a new one, replacing the old “ways of knowing” with a new imperative to teach undergraduates how the “arts and sciences relates to their lives and to the world that they will confront.” The report goes on to note, “Since 1945 the Harvard Faculty has believed in the importance of taking a stand on the question of what students need to learn...
...military involvement in Iraq an "illegitimate foreign occupation," and demanded an end to the "unjust" American-led embargo on the Hamas-dominated Palestinian Authority. All of this amounted to a sharp debunking of Rice's suggestion that Saudi Arabia and other Arab allies form a new moderate bloc to confront Iran, Syria, Hamas and Hizballah. Abdullah called on his fellow leaders to restore their credibility with the Arab public and never "allow banners to be raised in Arab lands other than those of Arabism...