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Though individuals involved in the search process refused to comment on individual candidates or the status of the search, The Boston Globe reported last week that the front-runner was Tom W. Lentz, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s International Art Museums division...
Demanding for half of the voices on op-ed pages to be women’s might seem too much to ask—but there are pages that do just that. One can easily look across the river to the Boston Globe to see the variety of op-ed contributors offered every week...
...Analogy alert! Similarly, the rest of the world surely knows America better than we know them - maybe better than we know ourselves. This is partly because everyone else looks in at us: U.S. popular culture has colonized the globe until our movies, music, TV, jeans, magazines are effectively theirs, with our accent. And partly because we don't look out. The distribution in the U.S. of foreign-language films, novels, pop songs is minuscule, irrelevant to the American masses. So when we hear something sassy about ourselves from foreigners - say, the French at, say, the U.N. - it shocks and hurts...
...idea is in the air. With America's armed forces stretched thin around the globe and its sandblasted soldiers grumbling that they want to go home, why not share the burden of bringing security to Iraq? In the White House Rose Garden last week, President Bush urged other nations to contribute "militarily and financially" toward creating a "free and secure Iraq." The Administration seems to think that it can get such help without a new U.N. Security Council resolution. But don't count on it. Under Security Council Resolution 1483, legal authority in Iraq is held...
...further trade integration through globalization, quantum computers up to 100 million times as powerful as today's PCs, and widespread fiber-optic broadband by 2015, he estimates that "we will probably come close to a doubling of the overall standard of living throughout the world in a generation." The globe's second-most-powerful economy in 2020? China. Prediction No. 2: The U.S. doctrine of preemptive strikes and increasing unilateralism will pump up the ill feeling between itself and so-called orderly nations like France and Germany. Over the next five years, Schwartz says, American military forces will pull...