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Prior to Appiah’s Friday announcement, students launched a last-ditch effort to keep him at Harvard...
...short-lived conflict in Afghanistan shows, today's lean, mean terrorism fighting machine is not your old Uncle Sam's Army. It has the latest in cool gadgetry, the unwavering support of the country and, now, a chance to ditch the bowl haircuts. After all, what's the point of feeling like a great soldier unless you look like a great soldier? This spring, the Pentagon will radically loosen the military's dress codes. It's not exactly like hiring Tom Ford to redesign combat fatigues, but it's a start. Notebook's suggestion: ditch...
Prior to Appiah’s decision to accept Princeton’s offer of a full professorship, students launched a last-ditch e-mail effort to keep him at Harvard...
...Colombia (FARC), accusing the rebels of stonewalling negotiations. The group are demanding that the government lift its security cordon around the demilitarized zone ceded to the 16,000-strong guerrilla army in 1999 as a peace incentive. Calling the security measures "non-negotiable," Pastrana allowed time for last-ditch U.N. talks, after which he said he would order the farc to evacuate towns in the enclave...
...thousands of innocents is as close to pure evil as one can imagine. At the same time, we remember firefighters sprinting into the shadow of the World Trade Center just before the towers fell. We remember the passengers on an ill-fated flight above Pennsylvania launching a last-ditch attack to regain control of an airplane, knowing they would likely die in the process. These sublime moments are now part of the nation’s consciousness, and it would not surprise me if Americans today were to find parallels between the selflessness of their heroes and of Tolkien?...