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...Harvard as the source of our society’s intellectual leadership. Now, inside these walls, I do not think that I was wrong: The world does look to us. But right now, we are not leading. Only by rejecting Opal Mehta and all that it represents can we exert our power and assume our intellectual responsibility...
...their pets that they often overlook bad behavior. "People in really stressful jobs don't want to set boundaries with their dogs. So the dogs are out of control and at times dangerous," he says. By rewarding the animal's good behavior and teaching the humans how to exert authority in a way that their pets can understand, he makes training less stressful for both...
...Strategic Level. But there are no present signs that the Communists are moving toward acceptance of a legal solution. Meanwhile, the non-Communist world must protect itself, and in such a way as to exert maximum persuasion on the Communists to take the legal solution...
...Ambassador Bloomfield says the "meltdown" scenario if the King abdicated is "far-fetched" and that a new civilian government could quickly exert control. Out on the streets, even the demonstrators express reservations about life without a monarch. "No one has a clear road map for what might happen after the King," says one, 26-year-old Ravi Shah, an administrator with a youth-education charity. "We've had a system of Kings for 237 years. Is it possible to just throw them out?" Bhandari concurs. He says that whatever the King's faults, the older generation still revere...
...Although the extremists among the Iranian elites came to reject it, there was consensus over this plan just months ago. Such a proposition would be safer and more beneficial for both Iran and international stability. But should such a plan fail to gain traction, the U.S. should continue to exert pressure on its allies to enforce strict sanctions on Iran...