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SUCH A POLICY is not only arrogant, it is--as Shultz cautioned in his Harvard address--short sighted and ultimately destructive. When we ignored the pleas of our allies, the Australians, we not only endangered the prospects for open free trade but also tarnished our reputation as good neighbors.
First, there was the CUE Guide controversy a year ago, when an administrator in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences thought it would be better if students weren't informed of their peers' opinions of certain professors. So he censored the write-ups of several courses, omitting student criticism of...
Ulysses Grant and his son checked into the Willard in 1864, and the clerk, so used to the high and mighty, did not recognize the man who commanded nearly a million troops. As President, Grant would often wander out of the loneliness of the White House and come to the...
Several years ago, Rendell wrote two screenplays but she refuses to do any more or to attempt a play for the stage, despite pleas from producers, because "I cannot stand the tedious business of having to tell everything through dialogue." She is protective of her stories in the hands of...
So far Mubarak's recent pleas have garnered no new funds. The IMF, the U.S. and other Western governments instead have insisted that Egypt take bolder steps to reform its bloated, inefficient economy. They are pressing Cairo to encourage more private investment. But their most frequent target is Egypt's...