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...that only a handful of ill-informed Ivy League intellectuals were entrusted with the task of redrawing the global map. But what makes Andelman’s account of the Peace Conference so enjoyable to read is his depiction of the players who take the field at Versailles. Each country??s concerns are embodied in the persons of their delegates, and Andelman spends as much time exploring the personal histories of these individuals as he does analyzing their country??s demands. In the end, though, individuals cannot make history on their own. They cannot alter...
...when he was inaugurated as president, he surprised South Africans by lifting the ban on the African National Congress, giving black leaders in the country a voice. He later organized the country??s first fully democratic constitution...
...don’t begrudge my classmates’ taking strangers’ gilded candy. For many, New York is a two-year Ivy League after-party, replete with company cars, expense accounts, and corporate junkets. Is it really so surprising that so many graduates of this country??s greatest university end up in this country??s greatest metropolis?And yet, I think I’ll pass. You see, I’m not like most Harvard students—I’m one of the roughly 10 percent of undergraduates with a foreign...
...promise of a brighter, more prosperous future within Europe. Almost all succeeded. Borders moved east; in its largest round of expansion in 2004, the EU acquired 10 new members. Adam Michnik, the famous chief editor of Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza, celebrated in 2002 the confirmation of his country??s accession: “…the dream of several generations of Poles, who stubbornly beat their heads against the walls of totalitarian dictatorships, has been fulfilled...
...should be wary of overly wishful thinking,” Song said. “These are untrodden territories of disabling a country??s nuclear weapons program purely by negotiations...