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Tulloch was disqualified in one race on Wednesday because she was overearly—the currents actually pushed her past the starting point—by no fault...
True to the economist in him, Ferguson finds fault with the way Oxford and Cambridge allocate their most precious academic resource—their professors. Ferguson says that undergraduate history students, with their diverse backgrounds and interests, can be taught in a large class instead of in a small, Oxford-style tutorial...
...though the illusion of the lazy poor plagues us at a national level, it seems that at Harvard—the land of the over-privileged and self-entitled—this “their fault, not mine” mentality is wholeheartedly embraced by all too many. However, the Harvard Political Review, with its recent “American Poverty” issue, is taking some admirable steps towards unseating many misconceptions regarding those in the lowest quintile. In one particularly compelling article about the “working poor,” writer Tobias Snyder adeptly points...
...high up does responsibility go? Everyone agrees that the despicable treatment the 372nd inflicted at Abu Ghraib violated the Geneva Conventions, U.S. rules on interrogation and common decency. And no matter what superiors order, soldiers are ultimately culpable for their own actions. But across Capitol Hill, many also fault senior Pentagon civilians and brass for loosening the rules of interrogation in Iraq and the top guns of the Bush Administration for setting a tone of tolerance as far back as Sept. 11 that may have encouraged the abuse. While the Administration maintained that its rules and practices of interrogation adhered...
...poverty and joblessness, and often goaded by manipulative politicians, extremists on both sides go at each other in vicious battles. Plateau state, where cattle herders from the north and farmers from the south vie for control of the fertile plains of Nigeria's middle belt, is "right on the fault line," as one Western diplomat puts it. That fault line ruptured again in February. In the town of Yelwa - whose some 10,000 residents are mostly Muslim - a suspected Muslim militia killed 48 Christians after a months-long dispute over land and cattle. Three weeks ago, Christian militiamen took revenge...