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...street level, this lull means Ali is grumpier than usual because taking home poor tips guarantees a regular ear bashing from his wife. In a wider context, however, it's even more serious: luxury hotels across the country?a legacy of the Israeli-Jordanian peace accords of 1994 and the subsequent joint tourism projects undertaken a few years before the start of the second intifadeh?are nearly empty, and the tourist sites deserted. Any passing traveler can currently walk into a five-star property and pick up a room fit for King Abdullah II himself for less than...
...three-to five-day trips take in the major attractions of Jordan's rich cultural heritage in the context of Lawrence's own journey through the desert to Aqaba. Starting with the mandatory daylong rounds of Petra's historical sights, Lawrence fans hit sacred ground at Wadi Rum. This desolate stretch of desert is home to the Seven Pillars of Wisdom, the range of mountains that provided the inspiration for Lawrence's autobiographical epic of the same name. Lawrence loved the stillness and raw, natural beauty of the desert. In the book, he recounts tales of his campaigns against...
Some will say that there are circumstances where stark choices of the sort mentioned above will be inevitable. Surely, then, the best way to face them is in the context of a just multilateralism and international law, with diplomacy and with reluctance to carry out any threat of violence. If the other side of the conflict is a rogue state that needs to be taught the value of justice and cooperation, vigilantism is an odd pedagogical technique. And if war has truly been our stark choice both in Afghanistan and in Iraq, why hasn’t the more impartial...
...Afghanistan interacted most interestingly with discussions of other campus issues, Study Abroad and the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) in particular. Both were debated before Sept. 11, and neither has moved to a place where it would not have been without Sept. 11. Yet the entire context of the discussions is different from what it would have been. Harvard has liberalized its study abroad rules and has taken other measures to encourage undergraduates to spend time abroad; but those moves are the result of a faculty report that had plenty of momentum before Sept. 11. ROTC has not changed?...
...It’s different, but it’s not a negative thing,” Trama said of remembering the events without the company of his family and high school friends. “You’re in the context of a community that’s very involved...