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Author of The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars, and State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror, Robert Rotberg talks about his new book When States Fail: Causes and Consequences. This book comprises fourteen previously unpublished essays, which examine how and why states decay and what can be done to prevent this from happening in the future. 12.30 p.m. Room L150. First Floor, Littauer Building...
Student opinion at the meeting was divided over an idea Gross pitched involving making all first-year courses pass-fail, like the system currently in place...
Many people who approve of the ban on headscarves in French schools in the name of secularism, integrating the Muslim community into French culture, and combating extremism fail to see an important point: the ban will lead to the very things it claims to oppose. Muslim girls who choose to wear headscarves will be forced to leave the mainstream society by lack of being afforded a public education. This will further entrench the fragmentation of French society. It will lead to a whole community of economically deprived, marginalized, ghettoized, and privately educated youth who feel antagonism towards the French republic...
Even after the show Ruggiero and Chu put on the night before, Corriero didn’t fail to impress the opposing side...
...international terrorism organization to turn occupied Iraq into the front line of the global jihad. The memo, whose discovery was first reported by the New York Times, expresses frustration that the fight in Iraq has not been more successful as well as concern that it will soon fail. But, as a final strategy to upset U.S. efforts to stabilize Iraq, the memo suggests provoking strife between the country's two main religious factions--the Sunnis and the Shi'ites--through attacks on Shi'ites, who would then presumably strike back at Sunnis. Shi'ite-Sunni discord is already problem enough...