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...choice for its elite and accomplished community. The official press release gushes that “The 02138 audience represents the epicenter of the leadership class in America.” And this audience is presumably ready to whip out their checkbooks for the finest in luxury products: eager advertisers who’ve moved into the zipcode include Brooks Brothers, BMW, Wilmington Trust, and Neuberger Berman. “We do different things than the [official] alumni magazine,” said Assistant Editor Gregory R. Atwan ’05. “We don?...
Something about the visit to the U.N. by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad refuses to leave my mind. It wasn't his obvious intention to pursue nuclear technology and weaponry. It wasn't his denial of the Holocaust or even his eager anticipation of Armageddon. It was something else entirely. It was his smile. In every interview, confronting every loaded question, his eyes seemed calm, his expression at ease, his face at peace. He seemed utterly serene...
...time, perhaps, the perceived contradictions between Europe's secular and religious traditions will wither away. Liberal values do not exclude religious practice; they can help it flourish. The reason Turkey's pro-Islamic government is so eager to join Europe, for example - and the reason it has been so disappointed by the opposition it has encountered on religious or cultural grounds - is that Europe's liberal traditions promise Turkey's conservative Muslims a degree of protection they do not have now. Europe has never - not even in the 1960s and '70s - been an entirely secular society. The need...
Many a Sunday brunch has been ruined when I open the New York Times—eager to read an in-depth feature about this month’s offerings at the Museum of Modern Art—but find instead a rave review about an opening in Berlin. The college student who can barely afford an online Times Select subscription surely cannot hop a plane to Paris/London/Bilbao—why must Nicholas Ouroussoff tempt me so? Like the unnaturally blue bagels left beside the toaster, so too is the Times’ Arts section rejected when they insist...
...former Governor, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire—draw thousands of people to participate in the living memorial to the man who told my generation to “ask what you can do for your country.” They range from freshmen eager for their first campaign, to giants from government, politics and the media, who come to recharge their batteries and rethink their premises...