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It’s almost a cliché. Political commentators and elected officials from both sides of the political spectrum agree: the American military gets its recruits from America’s poor. There’s just one problem. They’re all wrong. Kinda.In my last column...
The most poignant moment of Mary Beth Carroll's CNN interview was when she addressed her daughter's kidnappers in Iraq, saying, "Jill's welfare depends upon you." To those not familiar with the Middle East, that might seem nothing more than as a passing remark, but I'll bet...
January’s freakishly warm spell has, it seems, worked its way into Harvard’s buildings this reading period. Looking around Lamont last night I was struck by the thought that Harvard students are hot—too hot. Crammed at our desks like slaves, elbow to...
Keeping track of Kim Jong Il on his secret trips outside North Korea is a bit like trying to detect a subatomic particle: proof of his passing can be gleaned only from disturbances in his wake. Witness last week's surge in speculation when Kim was said to be visiting...
According to Marshall Goldman, associate director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard, when prosecuting oligarchs, Putin went “too far yet not far enough.” He went after the oligarchs that did not support him, like Mikhail Khodorkovsky, yet suspiciously overlooked...