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...This degrades the standards of elemental decency, let alone abdicating the quest for truth,” Wisse wrote in an e-mail. “I do not think that Harvard should have given Khatami a pulpit unless it was to abjectly apologize...
...have with me a copy of the double issue "In the Steps of Marco Polo" [Aug. 7?14]. I read with complete fascination article after article from your gifted journalists retracing Marco Polo's steps. The fact that I was reading this issue while going on my own personal quest through Istanbul?a part of Marco Polo's voyage?and Turkey's interior made the reading an even more pleasurable experience. Congratulations to the entire team behind this project; you have outdone yourselves. Shruti Bajpai Gurgaon, India...
...keep its economy chugging, the Singapore government in the past has implemented farsighted policies to attract electronics manufacturers and biotech start-ups?and the masters program at SMU is part of another official quest: Singapore is determined to become a private-banking haven to rival Switzerland. Several years ago, the city-state's leaders recognized that despite its transparent legal system, low taxes and stable government, Singapore (population 4.2 million) really wasn't big enough to challenge Hong Kong or Tokyo as an Asian center for investment and merchant banking. But tiny Switzerland manages to punch way above its economic...
...wore loose-fitting barong tagalogs; many of the women, designer dresses. The formality was appropriate for a presidential inauguration - even one called at short notice. Clad in a simple yellow dress, Corazon (Cory) Aquino, 53, could hardly have imagined this moment three months ago, when her improbable quest for the Philippine presidency began. Her voice was calm and steady as she recited the presidential oath, her hand resting on a leather-bound Bible. "I am taking power in the name of the Filipino people," she declared. "I pledge a government dedicated to upholding truth and justice, morality and decency, freedom...
...That quest for notoriety has fueled legions of false confessions to high-profile crimes. After Charles Lindbergh's infant was kidnapped and murdered in 1932, more than 200 people stepped up to say they were the culprit. Over the years, 500 or so have confessed to Hollywood's 1947 "Black Dahlia" slaying...