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Pity the Obama Administration, having to behave as if Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari and Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai were reliable stewards of U.S. security interests in the world's most troubling trouble-spot. An epic suspension of disbelief is required to cast either of the men Obama welcomed at the White House on Wednesday as capable of leading a successful fight against the Taliban. Zardari's approval ratings are lower than those of the reviled former dictator President Pervez Musharraf; his army is reluctant to go to war against a section of the country's citizenry...
Carl Phillips ’81 dramatizes the weeping of Patroclus’ horses at their owner’s death in the poem “Happiness”; “Immortal, / and yet earthbound, hovering around their disbelief, / around their instinct not to believe…” they weep without understanding, until the anguish recedes and they are returned to indifference. It is the analysis of sorrowful themes such as this, tinged with optimism, that characterizes his latest collection “Speak Low.”In his 10th book, a collection...
...hottest professors. One blog calls Ritter a contender for “Harvard’s Top Chemistry Hunk.” When asked about this particular title, Ritter—dressed in jeans and a pastel Tommy Hilfiger sweater—laughs and shakes his head in disbelief. “People keep telling me that, but I just never...” Ritter starts over. “So some students told me and I looked on the Internet, and I couldn’t find anything.” He laughs again. “But obviously...
...metaphor for Jessica and Marcus’s relationship. But bringing in a Vegas-bound tour group of elderly Manilow fans and having them stay at the same hotel as Jessica and Marcus is a quirk in the story that strays close to too convenient to ring true.Suspension of disbelief at his repeated appearances aside, the choice of Barry Manilow as a motif works toward the ongoing theme of Jessica at once decrying and embracing the maudlin. Just as she tries to take herself seriously, she’s brought down humorously.Conveyed directly, irony seems only a result of hyper...
...future sociology concentrator says that his academic experience as a Harvard undergraduate had an influence on his disbelief of the U.S. government’s report of 9/11. Espada says that he learned a great deal about conspiracies in such classes as Political Sociology as well as Organizational Sociology...