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...perfect time to fix this problem. The University should require that students take a class that deals exclusively with the areas of our civilization’s greatest ignorance in either science, the humanities or the social sciences. How does the brain work? What is the ultimate fate of the universe? Why do economic theories fail so often? Did Homer actually live, and does that even matter? Although these questions will likely not be solved for many years, if ever, they can serve as inspiration. They can define the broad outlines of a life spent searching for answers. Four years...
...satisfactory resolution of the crisis. Simultaneously, the Bush Administration has voiced expectations that the example of America’s military triumph in Iraq will send a clear and unambiguous coercive lesson to other hostile proliferators, who must understand that they should refrain from seeking WMD or risk the fate of Saddam’s Iraq...
...Iraqi officials in its most-wanted deck of cards. Soon after catching Aziz, the military scored again by seizing Farouk Hijazi, a former high-ranking Iraqi spy, at the Syrian border. Now that the big shots are in custody, what will the U.S. do with them? Although their final fate--including whether, and where, they will face trial--is still being debated, the Pentagon is hard at work on its first priority: getting the captives to talk. The hope is that Aziz and the rest will finally shed light on the war's lingering unknowns, including the whereabouts of Saddam...
...threat but also a hazard to the economy and social stability. Containing the epidemic is just one of the government's challenges. Another is modulating public perception of how well its leaders are handling the fight against SARS. The stage is set for a massive political realignment, with the fate of China's new leaders Party chief and President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao in the hot seat. "This battle is theirs to win or lose," says an editor of an influential Party newspaper in Beijing. "If they can get SARS under control, they'll be untouchable...
...attention and so many people. The students at Harvard deserve parties like this one—we have to find ways to release the pressures of a demanding academic life. Otherwise, we’ll end up dull and depressed—indeed, many of us have suffered that fate, at least according to a recent University Health Services survey in which half of all respondents said that they had been depressed in the last month and almost 10 percent claimed that they had considered suicide...