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...tensions of the greater Middle East today are born of a willful ignorance of history and culture. Tehran's current belligerence against the U.S. is a result, in part, of the Shah's supine relationship to Washington, which had reinstalled him in a 1953 coup. In the 1980s, America's gung-ho support for Afghan "freedom fighters," waging war against the communists, sowed the seeds of al-Qaeda and other extremist groups. (See pictures of heartbreak in the Middle East...
...without hands-on experience. Bissell helped found a subsidized school in a Rajasthani village that educates 780 local children, and leads a reforestation project on land nearby. But these and countless other similar initiatives by well-meaning individuals and organizations, he concedes, are mere tinkering. "With our current system of governance, you might be aware of the problem, but there's nothing you can do about...
Duncan is undaunted. He often speaks of transforming the Education Department from the current lumbering bureaucracy that it is into an "engine of innovation" with the ability to try new things if there's a chance they will work. The system can't get any worse, he reckons, so why not reinvent? And as any scientist knows, it often takes many failed experiments to figure out what's going wrong, let alone find a solution...
Kelly N. Bodwin ’11, a current HoCo co-chair, said she personally agreed with the idea of not using DeWolfe to house Kirkland residents, though she said she has only heard rumors from tutors about ending DeWolfe housing...
...Mohamed ElBaradei? I don't know him - only that he's a candidate, like Amr Moussa [the Egyptian current head of the Arab League] and Gamal," said 25-year-old Mohamed Abbas as he drove his taxi through downtown Cairo earlier that morning. "Most of them are criminals anyway. The people are more concerned with making a living and finding a way to get married...