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...federal agency that doesn't know what to do with it, an agency that hates embarrassment above all things. So it was extraordinary to see last week what it takes to bring an agency like the FBI to its knees, make it admit defeat and promise--yet again--to mend its ways. Minneapolis, Minn., agent Coleen Rowley's blistering 13-page memo, first published by TIME, detailed some warnings that had been ignored and the opportunities that were missed even when the FBI agents working on the strange case of suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui implored headquarters to act before something...
Summers meets with Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 in an effort to mend a rift that threatens to send the prominent member of the Afro-American studies department to Princeton. West’s allegation that Summers questioned his scholarship at an October meeting makes national news...
...Japan is on the mend due primarily to U.S.-led demand for exports, the country could be poised for more pain. For one thing, the yen has been strengthening against the dollar, making Japanese exports less of a bargain overseas. That caused the Bank of Japan to go on a dollar-buying binge last week to keep the yen in check. Plus, there's no consumer boom inside Japan to take up slack if the U.S. recovery stalls. Businesses, operating with excess capacity, still aren't investing in new machinery, factories or technology, nor are they hiring. Unemployment remains high...
...Cambridge denizens think Harvard is an ideal neighbor, despite its wealth of resources. But in spite of the confrontation and mistrust that has historically characterized interaction between Harvard and local residents, several new developments this year offered hope for change. New players emerged on both sides with pledges to mend differences and work toward common ground, reinvigorating the promise for cooperation unseen in recent decades. That potential nevertheless remains unrealized today, and instead of reconciliation, the last year has witnessed only more of the same adversarial bickering and mutual frustration between Cambridge and the University...
...smarter. It took care of its own by taking care of others. It built international institutions - NATO, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization - that advanced American interests, military and economic, along with those of others. Today, the U.S. is more prone to rend than to mend the international fabric. But why should Gulliver bear the ropes? Easy. Better to contain yourself than to have others gang up on you. This has been the fate of all hegemonic powers from Napoleon's France to Stalin's Russia. Gulliver did well for himself by doing good for others. He got into...