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...experience, “Leaving room means there are often questions an adviser cannot and should not answer; we advise best when we articulate what is required, what is possible, and what the potential repercussions of various possible paths might be—but not what the final decision ought to be. This is often frustrating to our students, and I am always concerned that they do not misinterpret this as lack of interest in them or their programs...
...among various Afghan factions over some form of transitional g overnment to replace the Taliban - and avert a slide back into the civil war of the pre-Taliban era. Such a government would convene a broadly representative 'loya jirga' grand assembly within six months to discuss how the country ought to be ruled, and conduct national elections within two years...
...Singapore's Straits Times warned that both sides will have to compromise. "Both sides ought to ask themselves now: What can they possibly get in the future that they could not get 16 months ago? Continued Israeli control of the Jordan Valley? Not unless Israel wishes to remain a brutalizing and brutalized colonial power. Full sovereignty over Jerusalem? That is impossible, for Jerusalem belongs to nobody and everybody, and has to be shared. The full legal right for Palestinians to return to the Israel that they left in 1948, in the wake of the first Israeli-Arab war? Does...
...week published a lively interview with officials from Al Jezeera - they like the station for the very reasons Washington doesn't - most of its attention was on China's bid to "fill in a void in [the] nation's space history" by sending a mission to the moon. Someone ought to point out to Beijing that once the U.S. won the "race" to the moon in 1969, the Soviets never sent a manned mission there. (The U.S. didn't send too many more, either, because there wasn't all that much to do there.) Then again, Beijing may be tantalized...
...power of such a means of veiled yet brutally honest communication with Faculty cannot be underestimated. In fact, such an outlet for relatively anonymous, highly visible and responsive feedback might have prevented the recent tragedies in the chemistry department. For this reason, every department ought to have such a useful release valve/suggestion box/comic troupe, especially those disciplines in the hard sciences where pressure on graduate students can silently build to soul-crushing magnitudes. I understand that other departments, saddled with a typical non-physics inferiority complex, might cringe at the idea of directly lifting the puppet show concept from...