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However, in a departure from his reputation as a hawkish Cold War hardliner, Brzezinski advocated a vision of a softer, gentler United States that “infuses globalization with humane content.” In Brzezinski’s vision, the United States should abandon its trend toward single-handed action, exemplified by the Iraq conflict...
...audience. Theo and Isabelle, who are revealed to be twins, bathe and sleep naked together. Although they seem to never explicitly engage in intercourse, their relationship seems quasi, if not fully, incestuous. The Dreamers is adventurous in a way that few modern films are allowed to be, but its content doesn’t measure up to its ambition and leaves us with disappointing thoughts of what the movie could have been...
...bound together less by organizational loyalty to bin Laden than by a commitment to the ideas he personifies - global jihad against the U.S. and its allies. In the language of commerce, al-Qaeda has become a brand, with bin Laden its symbol -a signifier that immediately explains its content. Local jihadi groups in Iraq or Turkey that have no operational contact with bin Laden's leadership cadre nonetheless proclaim their affiliation with al-Qaeda, because that association amplifies the meaning of a specific action - the bombing of a hotel in Istanbul or an embassy in Baghdad - by tying...
...hard to overestimate the importance of the College’s ongoing curricular review. The basics of Harvard undergraduate education will change, affecting the quality and content of the Harvard academic experience for at least a generation. Yet even though the review’s working groups—on pedagogy, general education, concentrations and students’ overall academic experience—have already turned in their preliminary findings to Associate Dean of the College Jeffrey Wolcowitz, who manages the curricular review, the only thing students and faculty uninvolved in the process have seen is a meager four-page...
Late last Thursday night, a tired but content Bremer was proudly telling TIME of the occupation's first solid political accomplishment in 11 months. Three days of tense marathon negotiations in the Iraqi Governing Council had culminated in unanimous approval of a surprisingly liberal draft constitution just before the dawn call to prayers on March 1. Bremer praised the much maligned council for taking a "wonderful" step toward democracy. In a triumphant news conference that morning, Shi'ite council member Muwaffaq al-Rubaie called it "a historic day in the long march toward building a new Iraq...