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...moment by moving beyond existing structures and approaches to higher education,” Summers said. “Our resources and our moment in history demand commensurate imagination, daring, and a readiness to think boldly and big.”Having refrained from offering his own opinion throughout the Faculty’s debates in the past year, Summers seized his last meeting in the president’s chair to restate his ambitions for Harvard. And in veiled terms, he chastised the Faculty for alleged recalcitrance in the face of the changes he aggressively sought to make...
...almost any politician, nine years in office is long enough to curdle public opinion, but Tony Blair's fall from grace seems particularly poignant. As he stonewalled reporters last week about how soon he would depart Downing Street and issued uncharacteristically clunky ripostes during the Prime Minister's Question Time in Parliament, he scarcely resembled the vigorous, fresh-faced powerhouse who rode a landslide to office in 1997. No wonder: a year after winning a third term in office, the British leader is drenched in a storm of disdain. "He should go and give a different leader a chance," says...
...students' attorney, Perry Sanders Jr., says his clients "are innocent girls who were expressing an opinion. This website branded them criminals." CU plans to fight any suit. "We'd never settle anything as silly as this," Hartman says. "All these charges are just puffs of smoke...
Rumsfeld, who was not pleased, called Hayden into his office to chew him out. Hayden argued that his sworn duty as a general was to give his honest opinion when asked. So among CIA insiders, his appointment to head the largest civilian intelligence agency hardly represents a Rumsfeld coup. During private meetings on the Hill in advance of confirmation hearings scheduled to begin this week, Hayden said he would consider retiring from the uniformed military as part of assuming the CIA job. It may be that, in spirit at least, he already...
...when noisy posturing too often substitutes for reasoned debate and brash opinion trumps hard fact, we try to offer the kind of in-depth reporting, cool-minded analysis and vivid photography that readers will find authoritative and compelling. You are the ultimate judge of how well we meet our goals, but it is also rewarding when our peers in journalism judge us to excel at what we do. The American Society of Magazine Editors did just that last week when my colleagues and I received two Ellies, one for General Excellence and the other for our special issue last September...