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...Readers fascinated by old Shanghai often know the details of treaty-port life inside out, but those hoping to catch See slipping up will be frustrated. She has done her homework - and provides a closing note that helps readers know where to turn to learn more, like to the scholarly yet accessible works of Lynn...
...Education is what you learn after you leave school...
...think one of the most interesting things about Robert McNamara was that he was someone who was a larger-than-life figure in the early '60s, who then continued to learn and grow and change in all kinds of ways," said David T. Ellwood '75, dean of the Kennedy School, where McNamara frequently visited and spoke after he left the Pentagon and the World Bank. "[He was] someone whose ideas were always well-considered...and who ultimately had been through a great deal, but I think in the end came to great wisdom and insight from his many experiences...
...than I thought when I was an assistant professor," and that while part of him will never forgive McNamara for the consequences of his mistakes in Vietnam, McNamara has also earned his respect by trying "to come to terms with his actions and to help a younger generation to learn...
Barack Obama has been President for six months now, and we are beginning to learn a few things about how he does business. The most surprising of these is that he is a vehement traditionalist, a small-c conservative, despite his opponents' best efforts to paint him as a radical. In foreign policy, this has meant a return to traditional diplomatic devices - treaties, alliances, negotiation, a global strategic vision - after the ad hoc, go-it-alone bellicosity of his predecessor. No less a high priest than Henry Kissinger recently called Obama a "chess player," which is high praise...