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...Standard, Max Boot--whose recent book, The Savage Wars of Peace, kicked off the whole fad--concedes that "formal empire is passe" while arguing that in carrying out President Bush's policy of democratizing Iraq, "it would be a grave mistake to look for an early 'exit strategy.'" The length of time U.S. troops would have to stay in Iraq, Boot writes confidently, "will have to be measured in years, not months...
Building a one-length lead by the midway point, Harvard fed on the energy of its “engine room?...
Continuing to pull away over the last 1000 meters, the first varsity boat crossed the line in 6:04.1 during the Grand Finals, besting Wisconsin by 4.74 seconds with half a boat length of open water between the two squads—the same margin by which the second varsity boat...
...ways of knowing” in specific fields, students should also learn to identify what they do not know. Rarely will students come across professors or others dwelling on the great unsolved mysteries of Romantic poetry, urban decay or immunology. In some ways, the unwillingness to think at length about the largest, most difficult areas of ignorance is understandable. Knowledge usually moves forward in small steps, and this reality means students see only the smallest, most tractable problems. The great questions of most areas of inquiry remain hidden for students behind a massive thicket of theories, facts and equations that...
Radcliffe similarly dominated the novice races. In the Novice ‘A’ race, the Black and White finished at 7:04.4, more than a boat length-and-a-half ahead of BU and over 40 seconds before MIT. Radcliffe won the Novice ‘B’ race by two lengths...