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...It’s good to be able to talk,” said Corporation Fellow Nannerl O. Keohane.Meanwhile, Faust faced questions that ran the gamut from plans for the University to, well, her height.“I’m 5-11,” she told curious Crimson reporters. “Just don’t ask me how much I weigh.”Given that Faust is poised to take over the most high-profile job in higher education, she should probably be ready for anything.—Lois E. Beckett, Paras...
...point that he was arrested. He says he wasn't bothered that the U.S. agents had taken away his cell phone. Or that they had told his friend Babar, the former ISI colonel who accompanied him to Manhattan, that Noorzai was "not being cooperative." Noorzai thought it was curious that each day, when the interrogations began, the agents would read him his rights. He says he had no idea why his interrogators kept saying he had a right to counsel and the right to remain silent. One official with knowledge of the case against Noorzai told TIME that...
When Lieut. General David Petraeus appeared beforethe Senate Armed Services Committee a few weeks ago, he was subjected to a curious line of questioning by Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. The questions seemed substantive, but they weren't really. They were intended to lure the general into the Senate's political debate over a nonbinding resolution of disapproval of the President's so-called surge policy in Iraq. In the manner of a friendly prosecutor, Lieberman steered Petraeus toward his objective--a clear statement from the general that such a resolution would hurt the morale of our troops...
...that they live in a uniquely vibrant, creative and stimulating environment. STYLES AND INTENTIONS“There’s certainly a very high concentration of talent [here,]” says Jeff S. Nagy ’07.Nagy, a former poetry editor of The Harvard Advocate, is a curious poet. Belying his bespectacled and bookish appearance is his insistent manner and his forceful stand on the role of his art.“Poetry can enrich our speech,” he explains. “It’s a very simple statement, but it?...
...Curious about the reason for this obsession with feedback, I rang a couple of experts. Murali Swamy, the Bangalore-based head of research and consulting at research firm Gallup India reckons it has to do with the fact that free enterprise is relatively new in India, and that only in the past decade or so have firms been forced to begin thinking about their customer. In the old days, companies "used to have people queued up outside their offices to whom they would dole out their products depending on favoritism and availability. Now it's a market of supply...