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...context, of course, is students’ longing for teachers who can teach and inspire. There seems to be a dearth of this type of educator at Harvard, and so at the slightest glimmer of hope, students flock to take advantage of a real educational opportunity...
...week were twisting the squares of the cube mightily for a negotiated, political solution. The Lebanese government, crucially including Hizballah Cabinet ministers, thought it might have found one and started pressing it upon U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. She declared it had some "very good elements," an intriguing glimmer that a fix for the region's immediate agony might be taking shape, though she shied away from others. But even if this crisis abates soon, the knotty problem of defanging Hizballah will remain...
...possible no such strategy exists. But last week there was a glimmer of a shred of a possibility: Operation Forward Together, the Iraqi-led effort to secure Baghdad-finally!-using classic counterinsurgency methods. "What they're trying to do is take back the city, sector by sector," says Andrew Krepinevich, director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and a leading expert on counterinsurgency (coin is the inevitable military acronym). You might well ask, What is coin? Let me oversimplify: coin is the military equivalent of the police strategies that mayors like New York City's Rudy Giuliani used...
...press reports on start-up difficulties. Bolten's plan also calls for more happy talk about the economy. With gas prices a heavy drain on Bush's popularity, his aides want to trumpet the lofty stock market and stable inflation and interest rates. They also plan to highlight any glimmer of success in Iraq, especially the formation of a new government, in an effort to balance the negative impression voters get from continued signs of an incubating civil...
...faint glimmer of justice is piercing the grim shadows of U.S. practices at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba. Experts from the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Commission announced last week that the U.S. practice of detaining prisoners in perpetuity and without trial is in violation of international law, and UN Secretary General Kofi A. Annan promptly expressed his support for the panel’s demand that Guantanamo be closed. In order to uphold the standards of the Geneva Convention, the Bush administration should comply with the proposals of the UN panel and allow all 500 Guantanamo prisoners...