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From 2000 until October 2002, I was a Marine Corps lieutenant general and director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. After 9/11, I was a witness and therefore a party to the actions that led us to the invasion of Iraq--an unnecessary war. Inside the military family, I made no secret of my view that the zealots' rationale for war made no sense. And I think I was outspoken enough to make those senior to me uncomfortable. But I now regret that I did not more openly challenge those who were determined to invade a country whose...
...select disciplines. A discipline is a perspective. It is meant to be a tool or lens, with which we decipher and study the world around us—it is not to be studied exclusively in itself. No wonder, Harvard’s long-time insistence on joint concentrations disallowed the pursuit of two fields in separation. What is important is not the fields in themselves but the perspective we gain from them (with multidisciplinary exposure simply meaning broader perspective), and so, under the old structure, joint concentrators were forced to make connections between their interests. Now, by shifting...
...Bolivarian leftist revolution across Central and South America, doling out windfall oil profits to his allies and exchanging strong rhetoric with the United States. At home, he has done his best to expand his revolution, most recently seizing oil fields from two multinational companies that refused to sign joint ventures with his government. But judging by the protests in Caracas this week against rampant crime and police corruption, Chavez may want to plow more money into basic necessities like law and order if he wants to keep his revolution alive...
Brian Knep is wary of technology.“There’s no personal connection, and I hate that,” he says. However, the artist uses computers on a daily basis to produce work for his joint fellowship with the Office for the Arts and Harvard Medical School—the first of its kind here at Harvard. Does that make his work a contradiction, or some kind of revolutionary synthesis?As with all aspects of Knep’s work, the answer depends on the day you experience it.Using a novel form of semi-interactive computer...
...really addresses male-female relationships in the black community, how they play off one another,” Gentry explains. “With a fusion of the two originals into one entity, the men and women are now able to interact and respond to one another, in a joint dialogue about family, hardships, and everything in between.” “rainbow/streets” hopes to live up to its colorful title through the illustration of various emotions and personalities. The creative focus on the play’s language requires the audience member to keep...