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...dark dining room is elegant—the walls are a pale yellow with dark blue trim and Persian carpets line the floor...
...find and engage [the enemy] in order to end the entire business as quickly as possible." Subtitled Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power, Hanson's latest book traces the evolution of this "ideology of brutal frontal assault." His case studies range from the Greeks' destruction of a Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis (480 B.C.) to the U.S. victory (in strictly military terms: the author acknowledges the political defeat) over the Viet Cong's Tet offensive...
...from the rural Northeast Kingdom of Vermont to the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard. “I think Harvard’s library system was a major reason I decided to come here,” says Vana, who is particularly interested in Arabic, Persian and Armenian poetry. “I became fascinated with the mysticism of the Middle East and, eventually, the poetry that went along with...
Vana is taking six classes this semester, including Arabic, Persian, Classic Armenian, a sophomore tutorial, a junior tutorial and a Near Eastern studies class. Yet Vana thinks this semester will be pretty easy. “Language classes are great because you don’t have to worry about a curve or being in the top percentile. You either learn the language or you don?...
Like Zimbabwe, Iraq is ruled by a nominally-elected leader who cannot be trusted. Saddam Hussein is still in power a decade after losing the Persian Gulf War. He chose to subject his people to years of harsh sanctions rather than allowing the United Nations weapons inspections to proceed—inspections to which he agreed in his surrender. But now, three years after expelling these inspectors, Hussein is willing to discuss their re-entry into Iraq...