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...like violent terrorists,'" says Stephen Cohen, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Many of these groups have intertwining histories and common loyalties - as well as shadowy links with Pakistani intelligence. As the probe into her assassination begins, investigators will have to sort through a morass of violent groups that were gunning for Bhutto. And while all have some historic link to al-Qaeda, they have just as much ideological impetus to act on their own - or at the behest of rogue elements of the Pakistani government sympathetic to Islamic radicals...
...which they live is, after all, much more politically correct. With the passage of our new undergraduate curriculum, the Faculty have finally woken up to what any good relativist could have told you decades ago: Harvard’s curriculum is finally as much of an incoherent, poorly composed morass as its student body...
...Quite what his readers will think of Murakami's foray into the morass of contemporary Japanese politics remains to be seen. In his literature, and his life, he has made detachment an almost heroic pose. Murakami maintains that he hasn't changed. "I'm just the same way as before - independent," he says. "I am Japanese but still, I'll be myself." It is not an entirely convincing statement - but then there is nothing wrong with a politicized, compassionate and explicitly Japanese Murakami, especially if he puts his uncompromising self at the service of enlightened causes...
...week, an even larger group of legislators announced that they had determined that the death toll of the Nanjing Massacre - where Japanese soldiers slaughtered Chinese civilians over a three-week period - was just 20,000, one-tenth of the figure widely accepted among historians. Even without wading into the morass of what constitutes "historical evidence," such endeavors are plainly terrible for Japan's image abroad. "It really just makes the whole country look really bad," says Dujarric. "It's what you'd call an 'own goal' in soccer - and they seem totally oblivious to this...
...authorization of the Iraq conflict. By repealing its authorization of the use of military force, passed in October of 2002, but not delaying funding for troops deployed in Iraq, Congress could undermine any moral legitimacy that President Bush can still claim for continuing to throw soldiers into the morass while avoiding accusations of undercutting troops in the field. When the conflict no longer has the blessing of Congress, President Bush’s continued support of remaining in Iraq will be in direct conflict not only with the position of Congress but also with the will of the people...