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...conclave, Garner met with exile leader Ahmad Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress. He would not be attending in the morning--in many quarters there is deep opposition to him as a Pentagon puppet--but Garner wanted a chance to hear Chalabi's take on the situation. Pressed and proper in a tie and herringbone jacket, despite more than a week of living in a crumbling warehouse, Chalabi told the American proconsul the looting must be stopped so that citizens would feel safe. "We do not want Iraqis turning to Americans to solve their problems," Chalabi said. He wants Iraqis...
...There needs to be a critical mass of regular faculty to do replacement hiring in a proper way,” Buell said. “There will be a one year lull, I won’t say hiatus. We have absolutely not mortgaged our future...
...alleged that SVMP’s admissions policy is illegal. Analogies have been drawn to the hard quotas ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the 1978 Bakke v. Regents of the University of California. But what would be unacceptable as a policy for admission to the college, HBS proper or any other institution of higher learning, is completely appropriate for this type of specialized one-week program...
...proper introduction to economics requires teaching the basic theories that economists agree on while briefly mentioning those views which are more contentious and noting them as such. And it should foster some interest in studying economics further—or at least not brutally crush that interest while it is young and fragile. Feldstein has proven himself less than able on all these counts since he began teaching...
...John Ridley (Three Kings) has produced a story about the ascendancy of black pop culture in America, not only among black people, and the ironies that result when the art of the dispossessed goes mainstream. Ridley, who is black, is fascinated by the world of hip-hop but has proper bourgeois qualms about the violence and nasty language toward women. (Grady calls his girlfriend "bitch" while they make out, and she takes offense. "I don't mean like 'bitch' bitch," he explains. "I mean like sexy bitch.") There is dialogue--alternately inspired, funny and contrived--about how black...