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...misgivings, fell in behind the White House in its dealings with foreign countries has long gone: Newt Gingrich arrives in Israel tomorrow, and his guns are already blazing -- at President Clinton. An op-ed article he wrote for today?s Jerusalem Post offers reasons for the Netanyahu government to reject Washington?s compromise ultimatum on troop withdrawal from the West Bank. ?[Israel] cannot replace its generals' judgments on security concerns with the optimism of those who have never faced a threat to their survival,? wrote Gingrich...
...challenge them to consider new ideas and new perspectives. There were simply more qualified candidates than Danilewitz is--including the co-chair of Harvard Students for Israel and another active member of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel. We did not employ quotas in our selection of columnists, and we did not reject anyone because of his or her race, religion or gender. In fact, we increased the total number of columnists from 10 to 17, with the number of Jewish columnists rising from eight to 10 this semester. Moreover, despite Danilewitz's absence, 80 percent of current Crimson editorial board executives...
...contrarian opinions have been incorrect, I hope they have made you rethink received opinion and conventional wisdom, as J. S. Mill suggested they might. But I conjecture, with reserve, that at least some of my contrarian opinions have been correct. If so, I hope they have made you reject received opinion and conventional wisdom...
...world to get more stories and interview leaders ranging from the awful--Saddam Hussein--to the awesome--Nelson Mandela--to the truly historic--Mikhail Gorbachev. In 1987, hours before he probably would have died, he received a heart transplant. He bravely endured near fatal attempts by his body to reject the new heart and came back to work and to more adventures. When he fell ill late last year, the doctors didn't think he would make it past Christmas. But in March, when TIME celebrated its 75th birthday, Karsten Prager, resplendent in his tuxedo, was among the partygoers...
...expect their law-school counterparts to follow suit. At some elite institutions, a candidate's score on the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) can count for as much as half the total application. The exam is so integral to vetting applications that even supporters of affirmative action reject the idea of dumping the LSAT as a way of recruiting more minority students. Says Michael Sharlot, dean of the University of Texas Law School, where only four blacks enrolled last fall: "It isn't a great predictor of performance in first-year classes, but it's still better than anything else...