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...correct moral decision is not always the correct aesthetic decision. And in Libeskind’s blueprints for new buildings above the place of slaughter, the second has been mistaken for the first. Libeskind has said the site was “a place of mourning, a place of sadness, where so many people were murdered and died.” He is exactly right. He has also said that he wanted his design for the WTC site to be “something that is outward, forward-looking, optimistic, exciting.” He is exactly wrong...
...that judgment is correct, it will deepen the greatest crisis in international institutions since the end of the cold war. The U.S. has promised that Iraq will be disarmed with or without U.N. backing. If the Administration cannot secure a new resolution and goes to war anyway, the U.N.'s relevance to great international issues will be severely undermined. Already, the Iraq crisis has split the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union into supporters and opponents of the U.S. position. And this is just the dry, bare-bones recitation of diplomatic facts. It does not begin to engage...
Automakers say most people have practical grounds for buying SUVs. GM research says that among the top reasons consumers give for picking a full-size SUV are that it seats more people and that the size makes them feel safe (a misperception that SUV manufacturers aren't eager to correct). Similarly, the switch among a minority of SUV buyers to crossovers probably reflects a simple shift in priorities during lean, uncertain times: we want fuel economy and safety wrapped in SUV trimmings. Says Shosteck: "The market is showing that consumers want more of the attributes of an SUV, with...
...subdued. The most memorable images are gaunt and painful: the haunted Lincoln; the dark circles under Franklin Roosevelt's eyes; Kennedy standing alone, in shadows, during the Cuban missile crisis. This is a moment far more ambiguous than any of those; intellectual anguish is permissible. War may be the correct choice, but it can't be an easy one. The world might have more confidence in the judgment of this President if he weren't always bathed in the blinding glare of his own certainty...
Harvard is not alone in acknowledging inadequacies in Middle Eastern studies, but other schools are taking bolder steps to correct their shortcomings...