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Talbot quotes French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut objecting to some of Fallaci's extreme rhetoric. But he also commends her for taking "'the discourse and the actions of our adversaries' at their word and - in the wake of September 11th, the execution of Daniel Pearl, the destruction of Buddhas in Afghanistan...
The Gilbert Committee concluded in 1978 that Harvard’s system of governance should remain in place. First, the authors contended, the shortcomings in the structure “are more nearly weaknesses of execution than of basic assignment of functions.” And second, because Harvard?...
Twenty-five years after Alice Randall ’81 graduated from the College, her daughter Caroline will join Harvard as a freshman. She considers the girl her finest piece of work.Randall has plenty else to brag about, from her controversial parody of the Reconstruction classic “Gone...
Knowledge sort of accumulates,” noted former University President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877. “The freshmen bring a little in and the seniors don’t take much away.” If universities, as Lowell seemed to suggest, are reservoirs of knowledge...
On any given Friday, Sheik Jamal inters Iraqis killed by roadside bombs ("I can tell how close they were to the blast from the extent of burning and depth of the shrapnel wounds"), execution ("Their hands are usually tied behind their back, and they've been shot in the head...