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...military historian, do you see a clear path for a resolution to the Iraq occupation? -Halston Howard Torrance, Calif.Well, I said in December 2003, "We've gone off a cliff." I think [special envoy to Iraq L. Paul] Bremer's decisions in June of 2003 were an absolute, total strategic fiasco. When political leaders decide they can violate all the rules of war, they get beat...
...University President Drew G. Faust, a Civil War historian, added that while recent research has revealed the extent to which northern institutions were complicit in slavery and there are many examples of Harvard ties to slavery, she was also struck by the number of students in Harvard’s history who were “advocates of abolition and emancipation...
...Harvard Nakba Committee commemorate the 1948 dispossession of Palestinian Arabs from Israel next week. While the Palestinian refugee crisis is a tragedy in its own right, the committee has chosen to commemorate the dispossession of approximately 750,000 Palestinian Arabs by adopting the reckless, revisionist history of Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, an apologist for terror (he once stated, “I support Hamas in its resistance against the Israeli occupation though I disagree with their political ideology”) who directed the effort by the Association of University Teachers to boycott Haifa and Bar-Ilan universities...
...DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN, Pulitzer-prizewinning author and historian...
...court of Louis XIV, such as “L’aimable vainqueur,” as well as a minuet, a dance which was unique because it was not choreographed to a specific song and could be danced unrehearsed with any partner. Following the performance, art historian Meredith Chilton elaborated on these 18th-century entertainments, focusing especially on the character of the harlequin. One of the most popular stock characters featured in the Commedia dell’arte, an improvisational theater group, the harlequin was a comic servant character. Often dressed in bright, eye-catching costumes, the harlequin...