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Harvard Corporation member Nannerl O. Keohane, a former president of Duke and Wellesley and member of the current search committee, was often mentioned as a leading contender for the University presidency shortly after Summers announced his intention to resign. But in March she told The Boston Globe that she was “not available?...
Journalists covering devastated corners of the globe are often torn between the desire to stand back and observe or to jump in and help. After three months reporting on the fall of the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, National Public Radio's Kandahar correspondent, Sarah Chayes, had had enough of watching the broken country stagger to its feet and decided to lend a hand. Donning the turban and long tunic of Kandahari men (the better to escape attention), she plunged into a new life helping the people of her adopted home. The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban...
Between threats, tests and U.N.-sponsored sanctions, 2006 was a radioactive year for nuclear proliferation across the globe - and as 2007 gets under way, the action shows no sign of abating. A rundown of the world's nuclear powerhouses, and what to expect in the coming months...
...return of the Nixon Doctrine is one of the hidden costs of the war in Iraq. And it is another reason that, unless Iraq's leaders quickly forge a political compact across sectarian lines, America must leave. When that happens, U.S. policymakers will be able to scan the globe anew, with more time and resources at their command. Then the U.S. can abandon the Nixon Doctrine once...
...just don't think we should go hellfire damnation around the globe freeing people, unless it is directly related to our own national security...