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...odds his way. Besides deploying heavy security forces to contain demonstrations, he put three of the most virulent extremist leaders under house arrest. His most significant actions took place inside the army's barracks. He renewed his term as military chief "indefinitely." And he shook out top generals partial to the Taliban or its brand of fierce Islam who might try to undermine his new policies. Just about everyone was taken off guard, only a few hours before the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan began, when Musharraf smoothly purged three key generals who had engineered the October 1999 coup that brought...
...College will enable him to pursue another of his educational goals, namely an increased attention to the sciences and a stronger science education for undergraduates. Given the current structure of undergraduate education, it is possible to graduate from the College with a scientific background that is both partial and superficial. If Summers is looking to promote the quality of science education—especially in the biological sciences and those disciplines that will have significant social impacts in coming decades—he could start by emphasizing interdisciplinary programs such as biomedical research, bioethics and ecology and by making courses...
...order to practice it the knowledge imparted by a university degree is indispensible. But what is the purpose of a degree in the humanities? It used to be to learn many facts, read many books, and practice discussing them eloquently. This was never as much work as solving partial differential equations or synthesizing organic compounds, but it was work. Maybe, like some students and professors now believe, it’s not work worth doing, but then why come to college to study the humanities...
...international children’s groups. Once in the late fall of 1999, when virtually everyone thought that funding for debt relief had no chance, Larry went up to the Hill himself and lobbied vigorously into the wee hours of the morning to turn a devastating loss into a partial win that no one expected...
...also pose a military obstacle for any U.S.-led coalition. Taliban forces moving about with the multitudes of refugees would be more difficult to isolate without inflicting civilian casualties. The coalition is now struggling with whether to tackle the refugees before a major military campaign, to which Britain is partial, or keeping the focus on capturing Osama bin Laden even if this exacerbates the refugees' problems, which Washington has advocated. Outside Kandahar, the Taliban are stopping families at gunpoint and turning them back from the border road. U.N. officials say the Taliban are letting some women and children through--after...