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There is a refrain repeated around Harvard again and again, and it goes something like this: Harvard is admitting too many dumb jocks and, somehow, athletic recruiting is deteriorating the quality of the student body. This view, as it is presented around campus, at times publicly, is pretty bold. It’s also wrong...
...technologies allowed under the NPT to create most of the infrastructure for bomb production under the guise of a civilian nuclear energy program, which is why it has systematically hidden many suspect activities. The Europeans have spearheaded a diplomatic effort to broker a deal in which Iran would voluntarily refrain from nuclear fuel-cycle activities permitted by the NPT but which could be easily converted to production of weapons-grade material, in exchange for economic and political concessions. But that deal has broken down as the Iranians defiantly insist on their right to engage in all activities permitted...
...refrain Summers used to frequently invoke well before he faced the faculty’s fury took on new significance yesterday. “We are a community that is committed to the authority of ideas,” he said, “not the idea of authority...
...have the negotiations between Iran and the Europeans, which involved offering Tehran economic and technological incentives to permanently refrain from enrichment, broken down...
...just been to the Stadium, where the Red Sox had lost, naturally, to the Yankees. ?I was deep in my thoughts of despair,? Berry remembered, ?when all of a sudden, from the back of the car, I heard four or five voices raised in song.? It was the refrain of a folk song indigenous to New England: ?Better than his brother Joe, Dominic Di-Mag-gioooooo!? Curious and emboldened, Berry made his way through the car and found Powers leading the chorus. ?He seemed to resemble the immortal ?Nuf Sed McGreevey, a leader of the Royal Rooters of the early...