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...commit the same crimes. One thing we came up with is an idea about cultural taxonomy that splits everyone along one line: some people are geniuses and all the rest are critics. Geniuses do great things without trying to, while critics think and wonder and reflect, sorting out their function in relation to context/zeitgeist/the intellectual situation so that they can be sure that their projects are good/relevant/revelatory...
Progress on that front will only happen when the campus engages in an honest and thorough dialog about race relations. While the incident at the Quad was of course deeply regrettable, it at least served the valuable function of reminding students that complacency and subconscious bias are ongoing problems at Harvard...
...under your chin.) Tommy Thompson's main photo has him standing with a bunch of black kids and giving them a double thumbs-up, as if to tell us that despite whatever you may have heard, Thompson totally approves of black children. His site, however, does have a cool function where people Twitter--write short messages that blink on a map of wherever they're from. Over five minutes, I saw these Twitters...
...says Marines are now tasked with such community outreach at the rank-and-file level and with every contact with Iraqi civilians. Says Vistek: "The responsibility went from, 'oh, that's on the [lieutenant]' to, 'Holy s---, my [unit's] responsible for three patrols a day? Wow.'" That new function combined with the old but still necessary task of fighting insurgents can be overwhelming. Gove, like other Marine commanders in al Qaim, is mindful that he risks pushing his men past their limits as he attempts to blanket the area with American troops. "You can't burn these guys...
...While that won't leave Kouchner without anything to do, it does mean the nature of his role will differ from previous foreign ministers, likely becoming a more specialized function that will utilize Kouchner's humanitarian background. "The Foreign Minister is now partly a protocol position, partly a humanitarian aid and development role," says Jean-Christophe Rufin, an award-winning author, former diplomat and one-time vice president of the M?decins Sans Fronti?res. "You're not going to see Kouchner riding herd on Franco-German relations, but that's not what he's interested in anyway...