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...tenor—the College will be missing essential points of view. Summers, Kirby and Gross might all want to improve academics at Harvard—but if they try to do so by demanding more of students’ scarce time, they will be inflicting more harm than good...
...standard question asked of al-Qaeda suspects being held overseas is this: What person still at large do you regard as the most likely to harm the U.S. or U.S. interests? It was the frequency with which one name, Adnan G. el-Shukrijumah, popped up that led the FBI to launch an all-out search for the 27-year-old Saudi. "A number of people concurred that he was the individual perceived to be the most dangerous," a Justice Department official said. But sources tell TIME that el-Shukrijumah has long been in the FBI's sights, though investigators only...
...then. The unfortunate result is that some students who might have gone on to write brilliantly are turned away by Harvard’s big, bad creative writing program. But spurned applicants should hearten up. After all, when was the last time that angst and rejection did any real harm to a great writer’s genius?...
...invasion of Kuwait, Bush had assigned Cheney to win support from Saddam's Arab neighbors. "He was out there early telling the Arab world that the U.S. would come in and do just a couple of things," says Gribbin. "Get Saddam out of Kuwait and dismantle his ability to harm his neighbors. Since he promised that, he stuck with that. To occupy Iraq wasn't in the deal." The second reason--the more interesting one--turned on Cheney's political philosophy. Cheney is from Wyoming, and in 1991 he was pretty much a straight-up-and-down Western conservative...
Saddam Hussein knows what to do to maintain his grip over his people: have them hear his voice day and night. He knows that for Iraqis, the radio has always been a pivotal factor in determining who is in power - and who can cause harm. So long as they keep hearing the domineering and bullying Saddam, nobody will ever stage any action in the streets of Baghdad. It is part of the culture of terror he nurtured over the past two decades...