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...Gist: Filkins, a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, delivers an unflinching look behind the front lines of the war on terror. Whether it's a crowd impassively watching a soccer field execution in pre-9/11 Afghanistan or a group of American soldiers throwing everything they have at a sniper (bullets, grenades, tank shells, air-to-ground missiles) for six hours - only to watch him escape on a bike - Filkins confronts the absurdity of war head...
...played expectation game, has been evident in both the McCain and Obama camps. But while these silly attempts to lower expectations may be meaningless, the debates themselves are not. In a political culture dominated by sound bytes and rhetoric, where the campaign season primarily consists of pre-screened questions and carefully rehearsed speeches in front of staunchly partisan crowds, it’s nice that for a few short moments every election, the Republican and Democratic candidates for president are forced to actually engage with one another in formal debates. These events offer valuable and potent opportunities for Americans...
...While I have some concerns about the pre-professional instinct that leads one to choose to take an accounting course in the midst of a world class array of liberal arts classes, my quibble is not with the students who are taking accounting. In fact, I find much to admire in their pioneer spirit—they are willing to spend a little extra energy in order to learn about something in which they are interested...
...unforgivable. Nobel laureates, inventors, scientists and engineers of all stripes are actively disseminating cutting-edge knowledge to all who will listen just blocks away, and almost everyone here seems to ignore it. Maybe Harvard’s future scientists could use a little more of the pre-professional attitude shared by their financially oriented peers...
...Harvard’s Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals, a book inspired by a story uncovered by an intrepid reporter for The Crimson, the university once carried out active purges of its LGBT members. Those from the classes of 1970 and before, who attended Harvard pre-Stonewall—Stonewall being the 1969 New York riot which moved the modern LGBT rights movement towards a strategy based on widespread “coming out”—lived on a campus that probably had a climate more akin to that of 1920 than that...