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...threatens it and the arcane and insular culture of French bureaucracy that diffuses responsibility for what went wrong. But it begins and ends with the beauty and mystery of the Lascaux cave. "It's so spectacular that it boggles the mind," says Jean Clottes, one of the world's foremost experts on cave paintings. "When I first saw it, I cried...
...Harvard’s tumultuous educational history and even build up an “emeritus” section in my phonebook. But my extracurricular pursuit at The Crimson not only gave me access to the professors who make this University great. It also taught me many practical lessons, foremost among them, that leadership is about standing with others, not standing above them—a lesson that I could not have acquired in the classroom, where the professor stands above, removed from the students, lecturing from the podium. All around us, we see images of power embodied in those...
...rejected the comments, they struck a chord with some. Given this history, the new Japanese fingerprinting law cannot help but have some very unpleasant connotations. It could, in effect if not in intent, strengthen xenophobia and play into the hands of demagogues. The Japanese Parliament should rescind this law foremost because its benefits –curbing unlikely terrorist attacks– are less assured than the undeniable costs of a more discriminatory and insular Japan. With its beguiling culture, intriguing history, and cutting-edge electronic innovations, Japan has much to offer the world. The world also has much...
...simply a response to the war on terror and the U.S.'s toppling of Saddam and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan before that. In TIME interviews with key Libyan players, including three with Gaddafi going back before 9/11, it was clear that other important factors were also at work. Foremost among them was the collapse of the Soviet empire, which brought down Gaddafi's once-powerful friends in capitals like Moscow, Prague and Bucharest. Another important factor was the rise of Islamic fundamentalists in the Middle East, which resulted in extremist attacks in Libya and against Gaddafi personally...
...career, I am, first and foremost, a writer,” McCafferty said. “So I look forward to getting back to work and moving on, and hope Ms. Viswanathan...