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Does that look like the picture you see from your dorm window? Probably not, but Wisse believes that these characteristics of the “new generation” of Harvard students prompted the student body to reject the Faculty’s recent coup and support University President Lawrence H. Summers. Unfortunately, Wisse’s simple explanation does not withstand scrutiny; not only is she out of touch with students one third her age—a day of Core classes and a night at a final club would refute both of her claims?...
...bulwark, before cracking down when the protests turned against him. Even then, in the capital, the police proved unable to prevent a banned rally from going ahead. Some Pakistani analysts believe Musharraf is more vulnerable now than at any time since he seized power in a 1999 coup as he faces the combined challenges of foreign jihadists, tribal secessionists, indigenous Islamists and the liberal opposition...
...television punditry, anti-intellectual caricatures of the Faculty, and acrimonious debate—on campus and far outside of it. Widespread Faculty discontent has been likened to a “purge,” a “lynching,” and a “coup d’etat.” In some circles, Summers has been crowned a “martyr,” the victim of rampant “political correctness” among a faculty comprised of left-wing nut-jobs. Those who defend Summers often speak in the language...
...brought down by a mob that is not willing to be satiated.And it’s not just a mob, but a mob with the miserable staying power that tenure offers. Whoever succeeds Larry Summers, the Faculty will still be there.Those dismayed by last week’s untimely coup can take solace in the fact that Harvard is more funhouse and less emblem of American society. The resignation is an incident so preposterous, so exceptional that there are no big lessons to be gleaned. Rather, there are only circumspect, spurious lessons—lessons not in the sense that...
...Crispin Beltran, were reportedly detained for questioning. But the real hinge remains the military?Arroyo cannot remain in power without their support. Though top army leaders have repeatedly pledged their allegiance to Arroyo's administration, 14 junior officers were briefly detained last Wednesday for alleged involvement in a separate coup plot, and rumors of unrest among the armed forces have become common. In her televised address on Friday, Arroyo assured the nation: "As commander in chief, I control the situation." That remains to be seen...