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...colleague in this effort a distinguished historian of President Faust’s expertise and temperament. Not only will she be able to ground our moment of openness in the longer story of human aspiration; as a specialist in the American Civil War, she will know how to anticipate, confront, and find consensus on issues that unnerve and divide...
...chivalry and bluster” of President Bush exemplifies a more realistic response to the situation.Despite what she has uncovered in her writing her book, Faludi said that she remains hopeful and optimistic.“The attack on 9/11 gave us a historic opportunity to confront the past and resolve our myth,” she said, “To see ourselves in a realistic light.”—Staff writer Andrew E. Lai can be reached at lai@fas.harvard.edu...
...science buildings in both Cambridge and Allston – to support it. Our obligation to the future makes additional demands. Universities are, uniquely, a place of philosophers as well as scientists. It is urgent that we pose the questions of ethics and meaning that will enable us to confront the human, the social and the moral significance of our changing relationship with the natural world...
...encountered in the chaotic retreat before the advancing Red Army in the closing months of the war. But the revelation of his SS affiliation came as a shock to Grass's admirers in Germany and elsewhere, because he had so unstintingly criticized his fellow Germans for failing to confront their culpability in the Nazi...
...parliamentarians, politicians and Supreme Court justices pause to consider whether a weakened, but still functioning, constitutional democracy may be preferable. But Musharraf may be restrained from the martial law option by its potentially devastating consequences: It would force those looking to unseat him to take to the streets and confront the state, and if that forced the military to fire upon fellow Muslims, nothing would make Osama bin Laden happier. In his audio tape released on Thursday, bin Laden said that Musharraf's government and soldiers were "all accomplices in spilling the blood of those of the Muslims who have...