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Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom said he contributed to Bush because Kerry fails to grasp the lessons of Sept. 11 and thus has a “profoundly misguided” foreign policy...
...challenging works on paper I have seen in a long time. Castle’s sooty medium gives his drawings an eerie, cloudy atmosphere. The rendering of the subjects, often domestic interiors or landscapes, is surprisingly highly resolved, showing a very sophisticated use of shading and an inexplicably accurate grasp of perspective. He thus achieves an uncannily convincing suggestion of deep space that contrasts sharply with the roughness and irregularity of the paper he worked on. Here the torn edge of an envelope, there a line of writing peeking through a light gray ground, serve to continually interrupt the depicted...
Washington had no more than a grade-school education, but he had an early grasp of issues that would be crucial to America's future, such as westward expansion and the vexing matter of slavery. He eventually concluded that slavery must be abolished, though his own slaves were freed only after his death. He also understood precisely what his role in the new nation should be. Washington emerged from the War of Independence as a kind of god. Like Caesar before him and Napoleon after, he might easily have parlayed military glory into imperial power. But he performed his greatest...
Alex Turnbull makes an important point in “Recognize ROTC, Recognize War” (Opinion, Oct. 4) that America’s intellectual elite should “be allowed to grasp what exactly is involved” in war. However, his conclusion that Harvard should allow ROTC to recruit on campus, despite its explicitly discriminatory “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, displays callous disregard for the civil liberties of American bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer (BGLTQ) individuals...
...larger, much more complex process. "We've been taking the one-cause-at-a-time approach for 20 years," says Dr. Jay Iams at Ohio State University in Columbus. "But it doesn't work that way." Indeed, many researchers believe they won't really have a good grasp of how to prevent prematurity until they answer an even more fundamental question: How does a woman's body decide it's time to give birth in the first place...