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...asked to testify months after the events occurred." They have vowed to mount a "vigorous" defense, and one even told a colleague the case is winnable. But a number of veteran criminal-defense attorneys believe a trial will be avoided for one reason: Libby's lawyers face the prospect of calling veteran journalists' credibility into question and permitting the prosecutors to call some of the most senior officials in the government, like the Vice President, to the stand. In an environment in which little to nothing has gone right for the White House, politics alone could compel a Vulcan like...
...though they don't quite believe it. Those on the outside have been suspicious of Australian Muslims, and slow to engage them; they have been slow to draw new police officers and intelligence agents from among them. That oversight will take a long time to correct. But the prospect of attracting Muslim recruits will be fatally diminished if they can be persuaded that the country's democratic principles are entirely disposable where their co- religionists are concerned. The extremists are efficient at spreading their poison; it would be prudent not to add real grievances to their paranoid fantasies...
...this caution is understandable because corporate recruiting is, of course, evil. We students, who have attempted to live viruously all our lives, are embarrassed to be tempted by the prospect of a comfortable life instead of one devoted to Humanity (with a capital H) and the Greater Common Good (again, with capitals...
...mother's father didn't want to attend her wedding. To a Chinese immigrant who came to New York as a boy, who had lived and toiled in the back of a laundromat and worked his way up to become a successful insurance business owner and community leader, the prospect of his oldest child marrying a black American man was not just shameful, it was a step backward...
Harvard can only claim one representative—Nobel laureate and Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen—among the world’s top 10 public intellectuals, according to Foreign Policy (FP) and Prospect magazines.This sparse showing comes after Harvard was a dominant presence in a list of the top 100 public intellectuals that the two magazines released in late September. Ten University affiliates were included in that group—the most of any institution worldwide.The final rankings, released last week, were determined by an online vote in which the public was able to rank their top five...