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...faculty during this "interim" year. While Judith Ryan, the Weary professor of Germanic languages and comparative literature, proclaimed on this page last June, "As a faculty, we are committed to finding a new way. We continue to move forward energetically," the lackluster progress made over the last semester has proven otherwise...
...this model would not require any substantive policy change from the position Harvard adopted when it decided to divest from its direct holdings in PetroChina and Sinopec back in 2005 and 2006, respectively. Both those decisions were made on the grounds that Harvard should not be supporting companies with proven complicity in a situation that the U.S. government has determined to be genocide—in other words, companies that meet the "worst offending" criteria. Furthermore, there is precedent for this approach. During the mid-1980s, Harvard started screening the "worst-offending" companies operating in South Africa under apartheid...
...Pentagon's four-stars who serve as overseas combatant commanders are as much diplomats as warriors, and Fallon has proven to be a particularly deft one. After a Navy submarine struck the Japanese fishing boat Ehime Maru in 2001, killing nine aboard the vessel, Bush dispatched the admiral to Tokyo to deliver the U.S. apology to the government and an angry Japanese public. As Vice Chief of Naval Operations in 2002-2003 he impressed Rumsfeld, who was notorious for bullying his flag officers. When Fallon had to fill in for his boss at service chiefs meetings with Rumsfeld, he took...
...report has, in the respect of discrediting the Bush mantra, so far proven successful: The Texas swaggerer has finally emerged from his stark state of denial and admitted during the first weeks of December that “stay the course” is no longer a viable option. The President is now (finally) open to new options as he seeks to craft “a new way forward.” Whether the White House will listen to the ISG report and other suggestions remains to be seen, but at least debate on the topic is unfolding...
...Many Israelis miss their strongman, but Sharon, in his coma, has outlived his own legacy. His plan to unilaterally redraw Israel's borders heedless of Palestinian wishes has proven a failure; rockets are still spewing out of Gaza. Because of Sharon, Israel is also less secure on its northern front. Already burned by an 18-year occupation of Lebanon, Sharon would probably have refrained from Olmert's blundering all-out attack last summer. But it was on Sharon's watch that Hizballah built up its defenses and smuggled missiles from Iran and Syria. Sharon might not recognize the country...