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...people that demonstrated shrewd strategic thinking. Akira Yamanaka Kanagawa, Japan For Iraqi Federalism You reported on the stampede that killed more than 1,000 Shi'ite pilgrims in Baghdad, the Sunnis' honorable behavior and the dispute over Iraq's highly contentious new constitution [Sept. 12]. We need to grasp the fact that peace will come to Iraq only when all three major groups - Kurds, Sunnis and Shi'ites - are allowed to control their individual destinies in a federal system. Since the U.S. has a federal system of government, why does it want to deny long-suffering Iraqis the same privilege...
...cliché that is also simultaneously a revolt. To do it requires the ability not to do anything else, a special challenge in the summer before one’s senior year, when so many Harvard students exit internships with job offers in hand. Friends and classmates struggled to grasp the concept; “going on a trip” didn’t seem like much of a plan. “For what?” people would ask. “What are you doing? Is this for your thesis?” Matt and Andrew...
...concept may have been difficult to grasp in part because Matt and Andrew might be this school’s least likely candidates for rebels against the Harvard grind. Last spring, when Matt ran for Undergraduate Council president, in a campaign even his predecessors agree was the best organized in UC history, Andrew was his number-one asset. As campaign manager, he woke up at seven every morning to prepare a schedule for Matt and his running mate, Clay T. Capp ’06. He organized an army of supporters to escort Matt and Clay around the dorms...
...campaign, but he said he left the blitz knowing more about them than when he started. “I totally understand,” Matt said when I asked him if he was serious. “It doesn’t seem like you could really grasp anything, but you can. You definitely learn about people...
Victory was in their grasp, but it was not there to stay...