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...nuclear Iran poses a potential threat to its neighbors, particularly Saudi Arabia, with which it is jockeying for control of the region and has longstanding religious disagreements. A bomb in Tehran might push Riyadh to seek one as well, which could start a nuclear armament race in the Middle East as Egypt, Turkey, and Iraq scramble to keep up. This is the last thing that the region needs...
...very disappointed. Why, you might wonder? Because my friend and I went to the same Chicago-area high school, where for the decade we lived in the area we both cheered for the Bulls, the Bears, the Cubs, and other area teams. His switch in allegiances upon moving east struck me as overly convenient, even disloyal. I didn’t say it on the phone then, but I would now—when coming to an out-of-state college, it is crucial to stay true to one’s hometown sporting allegiances, backing the teams that have...
...Monday, April 27, the Harvard Film Archive will screen “Yellow Earth” with an introduction by Professor Eugene Y. Wang of Harvard’s East Asian Art History Program. Wang reveals that beneath an essentially “thin narrative” of rural Chinese peasants in 1939, there lies a rich history and an undercurrent of deep psychological introspection...
...Zionism as a central question of any U.S.-Iran relationship, or it could take stock of the recent welcoming signals by factions previously hostile to the very name of America to persist in pursuing dialogue in good faith. The Palestinian question, central to any conceivable peace in the Middle East, is not central to the beginning of U.S.-Iran negotiations. If a complex and dynamic nation, which cannot be naively summed up in Shi’a martyrdom or epic nationalism, has reached a level of post-revolutionary maturity to prioritize its interests, why should not America heed the right...
...Gilani's Interior Affairs adviser, that neighboring countries were fomenting instability in Pakistan will only heighten regional tensions at a moment when the country is least equipped to deal with them. Already columnists in several Pakistani newspapers are warning of a return to 1971, when a separatist movement in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, ended with a civil war that split the nation...