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...treaty, the U.S. single-handedly elevates India to the status of a legitimate nuclear power, thus showing no respect for cornerstone non-proliferation treaties such as the 1968 NPT. Importantly, the Bush administration failed to establish or describe any objective criteria by which other countries can aspire to achieve this type of legitimacy. Bush’s decision, instead, sends an ambiguous message to the international community. The U.S., it seems, is prepared to grant nuclear legitimacy to those it likes and condemn those it does not, and that will determine the legitimacy of a nuclear power. This type...
...School accepted its first ever gift from Saudi Arabia: $300,000 from the government to establish a chair in Islamic law. In 1982, Harvard received two gifts within months of each other. The first, $600,000 tagged for the Semitic Museum’s efforts at preserving photographs of Middle Eastern life, came from the Saudi royal family. The second gift, this time from a Saudi businessman, aroused controversy because some alleged that it involved an unwritten agreement conditional on the hiring of a new faculty member with ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). The allegations were never proven...
...down the offer. The CSA also turned down membership in Harvard Christian Unity, a group formed a few years ago to facilitate the planning of the Veritas Forum. “We initially expressed reluctance at joining,” Brewer says, “because they wanted to establish a definition for membership.” When the Harvard Latter-Day Saints were told they couldn’t join, the CSA refused to participate.MENDING A SCHISMBut Brewer says that while “there have been minor issues that have prevented the CSA from getting as active with...
These poets “aim to establish in the reader’s imagination a more admirable ethics of relation, one more desirable than can be found at present on the earth,” Vendler writes in her concluding remarks. “Intimacy with the invisible is an intimacy with hope...
...didn’t take long for Harvard’s three seniors to establish that Saturday night belonged to them. Following an emotional pre-game ceremony that honored the contributions of the graduating players, the Crimson came out with its strongest start in over a month, keyed by the efforts of captain Matt Stehle, swingman Mike Beal and forward Zach Martin in the trio’s last game in crimson and white. Stehle kicked off Harvard’s scoring against Columbia with a jump shot on a feed from Martin, who started at small forward...