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...questions about Pakistan's links to terrorism raised in your article should be investigated. I am bothered by the U.S.'s hesitance to confront Pakistan regarding its reluctance to curb Muslim fanatics. It appears that the U.S. government has overestimated Pakistan's contribution in the fight against terrorism and should re-evaluate its ties to that nation. Pakistan must give up the idea that tolerating fanatics is necessary for domestic harmony. That may be expedient for Pakistan, but it could prove catastrophic for the U.S. The least Washington can do is make all aid to Pakistan strictly contingent on that...
...recent liberalization of study abroad policies is a good first step as it allows interested students to travel for credit more easily; creating a serious language requirement, however, would be even more meaningful as it would ensure that all students were forced to confront the world outside America. Indeed, those students who dodge languages at Harvard are probably those who most need to be forced to take them. Harvard has a Core Curriculum precisely to ensure that students are forced to confront important topics, even if they fall outside of their favored fields...
...This man is being run by some very powerful forces in this country, and we needed to confront it. I was ambushed at a book convention. He got up in front of a national audience and called me a liar for 20 minutes. President Andrew Jackson would have put a bullet between his eyes. Franken's job is to do exactly what Donald Segretti did for Nixon--dig up dirt on people. He is not a satirist; he is not a comedian. He's someone who wants to injure people's reputations, and I think people have got to know...
...beginning of next year. Once the economy picks up, he vows, he'll tackle the vision thing with more gusto, focusing on completing his reforms of the pension and health-care systems and pushing power and money from Paris to the regions. To get there, Raffarin will have to confront ornery unions, suspicious voters and the Parisian élite who believe the Prime Minister is a symptom of French decline. "France is too hierarchical, too pyramidal," he says. All the decline-mongers are "like the cork in a champagne bottle judging the champagne. That cork...
...recruiting en route to banking or consulting. The recruiting season will really take off in a couple of months, but companies are already flexing their corporate muscle with posters in House entryways and psuedo-informal get-togethers at the Charles Hotel, forcing all seniors, regardless of their intentions, to confront the issue of next year before this one has even properly begun. In fact, that may not be an entirely terrible thing: nothing is harder, for me at least, than stepping back to see the big picture when in the midst of hectic day-to-day life at Harvard...