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The limitations of both equipment and men became obvious during Russia's five-day war with Georgia last August. Despite Russia's superior firepower and its bigger army, its ground offensive was not the overwhelming success it should have been. Moscow's military arsenal lacked anything to match Georgia's...
Diamond is an esteemed neuroanatomist and one of the most admired professors at the University of California, Berkeley. It would be a privilege for anyone to sit in on her lectures. And, in fact, anyone can. Videos of her popular course are available free online, part of a growing movement...
This issue also features Walter Isaacson's powerful essay making the case for why the U.S. education system needs national standards. Isaacson, a former managing editor of TIME who runs the Aspen Institute and is the board chair of Teach for America, argues that on the grounds of fairness and...
Students and religious leaders explored the intersection of religion and environmentalism at a conference held Friday at the Harvard Divinity School. At the gathering, “Ministry for Earth Community,” speakers presented various methods that religious leaders should use to encourage environmental activism. Many also emphasized...
Trouble had been brewing for months in Kathmandu over the most controversial goal of the peace accord: integrating the 19,000 former guerrillas into the Nepal army and, more important, into society. During the Maoists' decade-long insurgency, the former King's Royal Nepalese Army was called upon to tackle...