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...convincing the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to walk away from a deal that would have created two separate states in the region. “He’s the reason Palestine isn’t today a state,” Dershowitz said. Some of his harshest words came in response to a passage from Carter’s book that detailed his dealings with Arafat. “This is a murderer,” Dershowitz said of Arafat. “And [Carter is] bouncing Yasser Arafat’s child on his knees and talking...
Reacting to the most authoritative affirmation to date of the role of human activity in causing global warming, environmentally-oriented students and faculty at Harvard were agreed: Global warming is real, but there is still much that can be done about it. In its harshest assessment yet of humans’ impact on the environment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an international body made up of government representatives and scientific experts, released a summary of its fourth report on Friday, concluding with “very high confidence” that humans have had a significant role...
...That sprint, however brief, was a respite from an otherwise self-conscious existence. I regularly bare my soul to thousands online. But it wasn’t until I bared everything else that I made peace with my harshest critic: myself...
...girl in Franco's Spain seeks refuge from her vicious militarist stepfather by retreating into a woodland wonderland. Guillermo del Toro mixes the airiest fantasy with the harshest social realism to prove that fascism is a fairy tale of power and a nightmare of terror...
...make the choice Vargas did and the world yawns. Mom would love Couric and Vargas because she would know how tough it is to do what they do as journalists and why it's even harder to do their jobs as women. She probably would have also been their harshest critics too since she believed the reason the prize is worth having is that it isn't given to you easily and your performance should not be evaluated uncritically...