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...turning to religious militancy [Oct. 31], quoted the extremist Sayful Islam: "Even if my own family were killed by a jihadi's bomb, I would say it's the will of Allah." That statement reveals in unambiguous terms the mind-set of every radical Muslim across the globe, whether in Europe, the U.S., Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan or my home country, Nigeria. No right-thinking person can justify in the name of religion the taking of a single human life. Today's young people are searching for meaning and a community with human values, which an impersonal and technologically driven Europe...
...student-to-faculty ratio is higher than Yale, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania. And an internal Harvard memo from 2002 revealed that Harvard students rate their campus’s social life below many of their peers at other elite schools. The memo, first reported in The Boston Globe, ranked Harvard 26th out of a survey of 31 colleges in student satisfaction with social life...
...Japan may not be able to offer all that the U.S. wants. To be sure, its deployment of forces around the globe would have been unthinkable even 15 years ago. Japan contributed to the first Gulf War not by sending troops but by writing checks. But American officials still grumble that Japan is not taking enough responsibility for its own defense. (Since the Japanese forces in Iraq can only use their weapons in strictly defined circumstances, they have themselves had to be defended at various times by British, Dutch and Australian troops.) At a conference in Tokyo sponsored...
...that context, says Adam Ward of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, some U.S. strategists would like to transform Japan into "the U.K. of Asia"-a regional power on which the U.S. can rely not only for diplomatic support, but for military assistance all over the globe. It's a nice idea, but Ward insists that the analogy ignores the deeply shared roots between the U.S. and Britain, to say nothing of long years of close military and bureaucratic cooperation. "For Japan to emulate Britain," says Ward, "would be a quantum leap...
...fact that not one red cent of Harvard’s $25.9 billion endowment is being used to protect its students from falling foliage is outrageous. We come to Cambridge from all corners of the globe expecting an institution that practices what it preaches: a devotion to excellence and unabashed superiority. If we wanted an acorn-induced concussion or to get wet when it rains, we would have gone to Yale or Princeton. But at Harvard, we expect something more. In fact, we are entitled...