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...politics of victimization are quite useless at a place like Harvard or Princeton, where most mean well. In fact, this is as close to a perfect community as we are likely to see in our lives. Nobody is out to get anyone, and I think most people understand that. Those who don’t must start giving their peers more credit...
Visit thetemples thatgrace thehills of Kyoto, Japan's ancient capital, and it's not hard to see why the city seems like the perfect birthplace for the global-warming pact that was named for it. At the end of my trip last November, I toured the grounds of Nanzenji, a Buddhist complex that sprawls through the wooded slopes to the east of the city, and watched red and gold leaves fall upon a rock garden, where they were swept up by monks. Kyoto's temples show how humans can live in nature and actually...
...changed. I supported staying. I thought we could win militarily. I have learned since then that there's a limitation of what the military can do. Iraq is a perfect example. We kick the doors in, we use bombers coming in at a high level, and even though they're laser [equipped], you kill people inadvertently. We have to use overwhelming force in order to protect American lives, but that creates enemies because of the way we have to operate. It's not even the excesses--it's just the way you have to operate...
...challenge is enormous. By some estimates, half the daily sectarian attacks in Baghdad flow out of Sadr City. Home to more than 2 million people, the area is a world unto itself. From the air, the perfect street grid makes it seem like a pocket of civic order. But a glance down any street reveals the place for what it is, one of the world's biggest and poorest slums. Clouds of flies roll over roads and alleyways covered in the stench of rotting garbage and open sewers. Houses are so close together in some areas that Mahdi Army fighters...
...break from boring textbook reading to listen to award-winning author Vikram Chandra discuss his latest creation, “Sacred Games.” Chandra, who is being hosted by The Harvard Bookstore, will be reading selections from his highly anticipated novel at the Brattle Theater, providing the perfect mode of acceptable procrastination as you finish up studying for finals. Thursday, Jan. 18 at 6 p.m. The Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St. $3 3)Tracy Morgan, Live! Saturday Night Live veteran and star of the newest NBC comedy, 30 Rock, returns to Boston to perform a solo act that?...