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...Vassanji's The Assassin's Song is a more complex but ultimately less satisfying examination of similar turf. The central character, Karsan, is destined to be the latest in a centuries-long familial line to inherit the Shrine of the Wanderer, an important place of Sufi worship in India's Gujarat state. But as a young man he falls out with his father and loses his faith, escaping to North America instead. When he returns, after the riots that ripped apart Gujarat in 2002, Karsan is forced to re-examine his beliefs, his family and himself...
...Harry R. Lewis ’68, Gordon McKay professor of computer science and former dean of Harvard College, argued in an editorial this summer: “Our children will not inherit our nationhood genetically. They can receive it only through learning.” If Harvard graduates haven’t learned about what it means to be an American, then this university is taking high treason to new heights...
...what are the urgent challenges America faces at this particular moment in history? One is Iraq. Whoever the next president is, he or she will inherit whatever is left of the “stay the course” or “return on success” strategy, as well as heightened tensions with Iran...
...Kennedy School and the moderator of the event, asked the panelists—Kennedy School professors Graham T. Allison, Linda J. Bilmes, Tad J. Oelstrom, Sarah Sewall, and former Rep. Clay Shaw (D-Fla.)—how many troops they each expected the next president to inherit in Iraq. None estimated that there would be fewer than 80,000 on active duty...
...that the grim Iraq scenarios presented this week by General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker will be largely similar to those that will be on the desk of the incoming U.S. President in January 2009. From what we were told this week, it appears likely that the next Administration will inherit an Iraq with nearly as many troops as were there in the summer...