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...heritage district and tourist magnet for Afghans and foreigners alike. At first, local reaction was about the same as one would expect if some bowler-hatted Brit showed up at a Rio favela and proposed that he help residents spruce the place up. "I told him he would fail," says Palawan Aziz, the neighborhood's headman and now the project's strongest supporter. Stewart persevered, visiting residents and charming them with courtly Dari and Afghan social graces burnished by his earlier visits to the country (his 2002 trek across Afghanistan formed the basis of his best-selling travel memoir...
...planet, but it is not a question of whether we will kill the planet. It is a matter of maintaining a survivable habitat for ourselves. Thousands of species are already in danger of extinction, which raises the question, Can we adapt, or are we just another soon-to-fail genetic experiment? Andrew L. Brown, Jessup, Maryland...
...sheer body count on the campus horrific, but so was the relish with which the victims were killed. Doctors in the hospital where the survivors were treated described their injuries as "brutal," with each of the victims sustaining at least three bullet wounds. Of course, plenty of people fail tests and end romances and even suffer unspeakable abuse as children. And while there are a lot of narcissists in the world, many of whom crash and burn in their personal and professional lives, only an infinitesimal fraction of even the most unstable people lash out in remotely as violent...
...Afar, Iraq killed 152 people. Last October, a man took eleven girls hostage in an Amish school in Pennsylvania and executed five before taking his own life. The examples are countless. People are not good to each other. Five thousand years of violence have shown the consequences when people fail to be good to each other...
...clear: my point is not that Harvard should de-emphasize its global character or admit fewer international students. On the contrary, international students illustrate perfectly how benign nationalism and worldliness can go hand-in-hand. My beef is with the Americans who fail to follow their lead...