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When I showed him a draft of this speech, outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan advised me that such bleak language would send the stock market careening into a plunge worse than the dive following 9/11. And that, my fellow Americans, is the mindset that I wish to change with this speech. America is not defined by its invincibility, nor should it be. Vulnerability is not the trait that will destroy America; rather, the danger comes from purposeful blindness and denial...
...diplomatic pressure that the U.S. and its allies are slowly building on Iran, Tehran could nonetheless resolve the standoff overnight. According to a draft of the IAEA resolution being circulated in Vienna this week, Iran could defuse the crisis by, among other things, reimposing the freeze on enrichment activities that it lifted last month and ratifying a treaty that requires more open access to nuclear inspectors. But if the past six months of defiant rhetoric from Tehran are any indicator of its intent, conciliatory concessions don't look very likely...
...make that work? I write five pages a day and am usually through by 8:30 in the morning. I give the pages to Diana. She puts them into the computer, subtracts, adds, moves them around, restructures. And we do that every day until we have a draft...
After three years of committee meetings and draft reports, the Harvard College Curricular Review is moving to a period of “formal discussion and decision” that will include much-awaited legislation for a Faculty vote, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby announced in a letter to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Friday...
After three years of committee meetings and draft reports, the Harvard College Curricular Review is finally moving to a period of “formal discussion and decision” that will include much-awaited legislation, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby announced in a letter to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences today...