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...officials argue, Bush and Putin's serious disagreements over trade and the pace of democratic reforms exist in the context of an adult relationship that transcends momentary spats. And they need each other. Putin needs Bush to help Russia get into the World Trade Organization and to support his efforts to contain Muslim radicals. Bush often praises Putin for his support in the war on terrorism and more specifically for his help containing Iran and North Korea...
...departments have a relatively painless way of righting this imbalance by retaining disciplinary faculty while using new appointments to snag interdisciplinary professors. Once Harvard has the Faculty to teach courses that connect to, or even actively integrate, different disciplines—which can be done even in the context of departmental organization—interdisciplinarity at Harvard will move from the realm of the theoretical to the realm of the real...
...Guilty” as much had it taken place somewhere more foreign to me, but I guess that’s immaterial. It does take place here, and I am a Harvard student, so it would be impossible to discuss the quality of the book outside of that context...
...politics: “Van Peebles’s politics are indeed revolutionary. But aesthetically, his films are defined by constraints—of finances, style, and content—which make them doubly significant. They are on the surface aesthetically modernist, but in the context of their production histories they are also industrially avant-garde...
...error was disproportionately light. Your editorial repeatedly categorizes this matter as “academic dishonesty.” That is a serious charge and implies a conscious desire to mislead others, something that simply did not occur here. An accurate analogue to Prof. Tribe in this context is not to a student who has willfully taken shortcuts in classes, passing off someone else’s original work as his or her own. Prof. Tribe’s lapse, as the University found, though serious, involved inadequate attribution that was purely inadvertent. Prof. Tribe cited the source book...