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...SCHOOL THE HISTORIES By Herodotus We owe most of what we know about Thermopylae--and that line in the movie about fighting in the shade--to Herodotus, the "father of history." In The Histories, he recounts the whole arc of the war with the Persians, whose arrogance proved to be their undoing...
There is something intensely familial about the scandal now engulfing the Bush Administration over the dismissal of eight U.S. Attorneys last year. The key players--Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former White House counsel Harriet Miers, political shaman Karl Rove--all rose from the tight web of Texas loyalists who owe their careers to George W. Bush and followed him to Washington in 2001. Bush even chose a member of his Texas tribe who wasn't implicated, counselor Dan Bartlett, for the task of defending those who were. Said Bartlett of the firings: "All the decisions ... were proper decisions...
...spectrum of possibilities that we encounter is a matter of personal choice and imaginative orientation. We can only discover wonderful and meaningful futures if we get our feet wet in many realms, at least mentally. We owe it to ourselves to be honest about what we desire, what we need, and the personal necessities of which we cannot yet conceive. It is my belief that the inaugural Women’s Week was meant to capture some of this imaginative, open spirit. Both the Harvard College Women’s Center and the Seneca, Inc. aim to improve the experience...
There are few places in the world where a student can go from knowing absolutely nothing about a subject to possessing virtually every book and journal article ever written about it in just one afternoon. Harvard is one of those places. For this, we owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53, who has served as director of the Harvard University Libraries (HUL) for the past 20 years. Over the course of his tenure, Verba has shown a remarkable commitment to keep HUL on the technological edge of library science...
...Iran’s] top three enemies?” Allison said. “Saddam Hussein? We took him out. The Taliban? We took them out. Bin Laden? We’re going after him. Before that, who was your greatest enemy? The Soviet Union. You guys owe us.” Allison added that if he were in the Bush Administration, he would tell Iran that the time had come for America “to collect.” But Steve Miller, director of the International Security Program at the Belfer Center, said that Iranians feel they...