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After 9/11, Islamabad initially left the tribal areas alone. But when it became obvious that al-Qaeda and Taliban militants were crossing the border to escape U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Pakistan sent in the first of what eventually became 80,000 troops. They had some success: the Pakistani army captured terrorist leaders and destroyed training camps. But the harder the military pressed, the more locals resented its presence, especially when civilians were killed in botched raids against terrorists...
Today we cling to the Tudors, Gregory believes, because their moral questions have more obvious answers than ours. "When Henry decides to behead a young woman [his fifth wife, Catherine Howard], it's so obviously a bad thing to do that it's satisfying to the reader," Gregory says. "To judge it gives us comfort and certainty in an uncertain world." Sort of like reading a tabloid. A war may rage on, the stock market may tumble, but things are still O.K. if some sexy young star is behaving more badly than...
...What is the biggest difference you see between life at Harvard and life in the dance world, other than the obvious differences? Which is more stressful...
...situations where race is not the uniting factor. “There are also situations where people associate with others who have a shared experience, not necessarily a cultural background, but it doesn’t have the same kind of stigma attached. It might not be as obvious when things like that happen,” says Deborah Y. Ho ’07. In other words, what we call self-segregation might just be a more visible manifestation of the relationships that exist all over campus. “When something’s visible and people...
Let’s state the obvious first criticism that comes to mind when one thinks of Facebook: It’s damn creepy. There’s a voyeuristic perversity that goes along with the Facebook territory that allows all of us to peer into the inner-goings of just about everybody (well, except people with those pesky restrictions...