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...Lewis sits on the Educational Policy Committee, the Core Standing Committee, the Faculty Council, and he’s a member of the Academic Deans,” Knowles wrote in an e-mail. “I don’t know where else ‘faculty policy?? is made and discussed...
...sense, they are correct. It is impossible to deny that aspects of U.S. foreign policy??in particular our support of fundamentalist guerilla fighters in Afghanistan during their war with the Soviet Union and tolerance of the extreme interpretation of Islam being taught by Wahhabism-based schools in Saudi Arabia—contributed to the development of radical Islamist sentiments throughout the Muslim world. It is clear that in encouraging pan-Islamism to exorcize the Soviet demon, we helped create the Islamist demon of today...
While Halberstam nicely wraps up the stories of the characters he has been following throughout the book in the final chapter, the ending still seems somewhat abrupt. After explaining in exhaustive detail the course of American foreign policy??and domestic presidential politics—over the past decade, he is content to devote his final page to a rushed rundown of President George W. Bush’s first few months in office. The conclusion is not so much an ending as an added segment in a continuing story, but it has, in the aftermath of Sept...
...Vietnam War, and survives to this day in tenured faculty positions everywhere. And it is the fantasies of that generation—its moral relativism, its cult of cynicism, its delusion that all of humanity’s ills result from either Western capitalism or U.S. foreign policy??that, in their death throes, kick and scream against the better angels of our nature who yearn to believe in an America that is both strong and good...
...small portion of the ANWR to oil drilling will give the government an influx of revenue in the short term and a substantial amount of oil in the long term, both of which will help the U.S. decrease our dependence on foreign oil and formulate a long-term energy policy??a concept foreign to those of us who have adolesced under the Clinton Administration. President Bush and his Republican Senate colleagues should be applauded, not chastised, for having the foresight to promote drilling now, rather than later...