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...feelings the selection of Robert E. Rubin ’60 by the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) to deliver this year’s Commencement address. Rubin is a leading national figure and certainly a worthy candidate to deliver a graduation speech. Yet we are concerned that, through no fault of his own, Rubin’s speech may be regarded by many seniors as simply more of the same. When giving his address this June, Rubin will follow Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen and Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, two speakers whose major interests have similarly been economic...
...superpower means never having to say you're sorry. The U.S. was more than willing to apologize for accidentally bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade two years ago. But in the case of this collision, the near instant consensus among U.S. military pilots was that if anyone was at fault, it was the Chinese...
...Tuesday, some in the Administration felt they were being stonewalled. Jiang continued to insist that the fault lay with the U.S. The Chinese President also called for an end to U.S. surveillance flights. At 2 p.m., Bush walked into the Oval Office and immediately asked Rice to get Brigadier General Neal Sealock on the phone. Sealock, the U.S. military attache in Beijing, had finally been allowed in to see the crew, but for just 40 minutes under strict conditions: no recording devices, no individual conversations, the Chinese always present. The crew had been able to convey word that they...
...given call. This new dialing system, however, is surprisingly tolerant of common mistakes: adding a one before the area code would not result in an additional charge, and forgetting to dial the area code would trigger a recorded message informing the caller of the error. The remaining fault —complicated local dialing plans and non-geographically specific area codes—are representative of systemic problems within our telephone system that would be present in any case...
...addition, Bush’s foreign policy has been a tragedy, alternating between slapstick and sloppy. Some of this is not his fault. Sinking Japan’s boat and crashing China’s plane are not his doing. But scaring Russia, China and Japan by refusing to negotiate on national missile defense—that’s his fault. Embarrassing our old ally South Korea and our new acquaintance to their north by refusing to continue opening relations with North Korea—his fault. Failing to take initiative in the Middle East, despite being begged...