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We’re certainly a long way from the time when Theodore Roosevelt delivered his blustering ultimatum “Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead?? after a Greek-American was taken captive by a Moroccan outlaw in Tangier. Of course, Foggy Bottom needn’t necessarily use such provocative language with Beijing. But State must make it clear that enforcing American rights is the highest priority of the U.S. government: a matter of national security even...
...found a lot of the literary nourishment I came here craving. I’ve learned that the two-line gap toward the end of Joyce’s “the Dead?? leaves open the possibility of sex between the two main characters (so the Harvard English department isn’t the only sex-obsessed one out there, shocking as it may seem). I’ve gone home to re-read Yeat’s “September, 1913” poem after learning in history class about the brutal crushing...
...government has declared a military victory in Iraq. As a patriot, I will not celebrate. I will mourn the dead??the American GIs, and also the Iraqi dead, of which there have been many, many more...
...November, the English Department invited poet Tom Paulin to Harvard to recite one of his works. Soon thereafter, however, some of Paulin’s political prescriptions including the idea that Brooklyn-born settlers in Israel’s West Bank “should be shot dead?? surfaced, and the department rescinded its invitation. Speculation arose that Summers had pressured members of the department to snub Paulin. Immediately, members of the Harvard community organized on both sides of the issue. Some praised Summers for preventing a well-known anti-Semite and symbol of hate from infecting...
...displays the cover of Phony Communism is Dead?? Long Live Real Communism...