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...creation of African Studies as a concentration track means that this important area of scholarly inquiry will get the attention it merits. For too long African studies has been neglected at Harvard, forced to exist only as a coordinating committee for courses in other departments. But within the context of Gates’ department, great resources can be devoted to African studies—to the benefit of those interested in this exciting field. And within the context of the department, a wider range of courses in African studies are surely just around the bend. Especially important will...
...easy to find differences between yesterday's Lebanon and today's Iraq. Perhaps Reagan's commitment then was not as strong as Bush's is now. With the Cold War still going, maybe Reagan felt greater geopolitical constraints to act. But anyone who ignores the parallels that exist does so at his peril. Iraqi Shiites, like those in Lebanon in 1982, have suddenly been released to seek their fortunes in politics. As in Lebanon, many groups will seek advantage over others by opposing America's occupation of Iraq...
...enemy fighters. The release of that number may have been an effort to rattle the Iraqis. But the estimate was little more than what the military calls a WAG, a wild-assed guess. The Iraqi side can't do much better. No longer does an authority exist to track casualties. Even if one did, the task would be Herculean. In the Muslim world, the deceased are buried as quickly as possible, and war deaths can thus go unrecorded. This is a war that may never have a reliable body count...
...guess that means I don't exist," jokes a middle-aged English man who has been confined to the 14th-floor isolation ward for a week. He connects with the outside world by cell phone. "The care here is good, but I must admit I'm feeling a little cut off from the real world," he says between dry coughs. China's persistent obfuscation contributed to the U.S. issuing a travel advisory warning against nonessential trips to China. And in Hong Kong, the government ordered family members of confirmed patients to stay in home quarantine. Travelers wishing to fly from...
...hadn't expected Bush to acknowledge it so soon or so imprecisely. It will take some artful diplomacy to finesse an end to the sanctions: the U.N. will have to declare Iraq disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a mutually acceptable mechanism for that doesn't yet exist. But France is of no mind to ride its principles into further oblivion. "France never liked the sanctions in the first place," says an official at the French Foreign Ministry. "The idea of us opposing lifting them is a nonstarter." He believes that "at the end of the day, the Americans...