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Tuesday’s brief is the latest development in a high-profile suit challenging the 1996 Solomon Amendment, under which the Pentagon has threatened to cut funding to universities that fail to cooperate with military recruiters...
From a critical perspective, it isn’t too surprising when artists fail to really appreciate the very things that make them great. But it can be depressing when someone like Timbaland—who pulled mainstream hip-hop out of the gutter in the late 90s and changed popular music for the better—seeks inspiration from two acts that exemplify everything traditional, comforting and safe about modern pop (Yorke et al excused). “Real” musicians wouldn’t have come up with the android beatbox hiccupping under Missy?...
...study, to network, to party and to take ourselves too seriously all in preparation for when we become the world leaders of our generation. We didn’t stagger into Harvard’s gates by chance, nor do we plan on stumbling out. Although we sometimes fail, Harvard students don’t fall. And if we do, it’s normally planned and thus not truly falling...
...country could quickly slide toward chaos. Retired General Anthony Zinni, the former top commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, told TIME that foreign jihadists are trying to incite a civil war in Iraq. "They want Iraq to come apart," he says. "They want the U.S. to fail, and they want to see it become three theocratic states. They don't want to see Iraq hold together as a democracy." Says Herro Kader Mustafa, a Kurdish-American coalition official in Mosul: "We are doing our best to make sure things don't erupt...
...when individual initiative does not suffice, and professors’ resources fail them, it is often the role of chairs, deans and the administration to take a more proactive role in encouraging retirement...