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...hope the U.S. may begin to export democracy more vigorously. I grew up in Cairo and was a journalist there for many years, and I have seen firsthand the effects of institutionalized brutality and an endemic disregard for human rights. I hope that in the future the U.S. will be less inclined to accommodate tin-pot autocrats in the interest of economic stability and more willing to use economic and diplomatic pressure to bring about a global acceptance of the freedoms we take for granted in North America. MOHAMED RAGHEB Toronto...
There are two stories to be told of last Tuesdays attack on the World Trade Center. Television anchors and news cameras report the most familiar of them. The other is told by the relief workers and volunteers who have seen the wreckage firsthand. Last week, a number of Harvard students went to New York City to do just that...
What has academic administrators around the country so worried is that they know rulings like the UGA decision could dramatically change the racial makeup of their campuses. The Berkeley campus of the University of California saw this firsthand when it was forced by California's Proposition 209 to switch to race-blind admissions. Underrepresented minorities in the student body dropped sharply, from 25% to 11%. At the University of Texas School of Law, the number of black first-years fell to just four the year after the school was ordered to adopt race-blind admissions--from 38 the year before...
Some days, Big Brother doesn’t seem so bad. And no, I’m not talking about the television series; I’m talking about Orwellian state surveillance. I was in Singapore over the summer, and experienced firsthand what it’s like to be watched all day, everyday...
...Mahar, for one, is disappointed, largely because he's seen the benefits of a preschool program firsthand while serving as principal at a private Catholic school in the 1980s. When standardized test results came in for the school's two kindergarten classes in Mahar's first year on the job, he was surprised to see that one class performed markedly better than the other, despite the two sections having equally good teachers. "I asked the one teacher why her kids were doing so well, and she told me that it was because she got all the students who went through...