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...with great excuses for this flaw in my character for this flaw in my character for several years now: I'm from New York City and don't need to drive; I've always been too busy. But the fact of the matter is that I must show a learner's permit as a valid form of identification (to the great amusement of my drive-o-centric friends), and I still need my mother to drive me to the mall...
...studying history, Mr. Clinton can positively use some of the experiences of his professed political idols. In the words of Henry A. Kissinger '50, a great leader also possesses "a tragic sense of history." Although President Clinton seems to lack this quality, he has proven to be an adept learner...
Saddam, alas, is a slow learner who rarely gets the point of any lesson. Apparently his main intent in moving the troops was to pressure the U.N. into lifting its draconian sanctions on Iraq in a forthcoming vote. And he might have achieved this if he had just kept quiet. The U.S. and Britain were the only two permanent members of the Security Council bound to vote to sustain the sanctions. Russia wants Iraq to repay $6 billion in prewar military debts; France seeks to resume lucrative commercial ties with Baghdad; China has weapons to sell to Iraq. "You think...
This remarkable account, reworked and eased of learner's stiffness, is now published as South Wind Changing (Graywolf Press; 320 pages; $20). The author's childhood was pastoral and amazingly peaceful. Although an older brother was a military pilot, the war at first did not touch the island in the Mekong Delta where his large, prosperous family grew rice. But fighting swept through with the Tet offensive of 1968, when Jade was 12, and afterward "the war continued on and off like a chronic disease." He had passed his university exams when the North won its victory and the Americans...
...Traditionally Harvard has had a very hard time accepting the non-traditional applicant, the non-traditional learner, and accommodating them," says Blackmore, a former resident tutor in Adams House. She attributes this to the College's reservations about interfering with the teaching styles and formats of tenured faculty at Harvard...