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...invade another Muslim country ... even for the best of reasons." Sanger uncovers a sheaf of covert operations, like an effort to sabotage Iran's nuclear program, but concludes that Bush was too rigid and unimaginative to react to challenges beyond Iraq: "The 'decider' became the ditherer." As a result, Barack Obama faces an Iran "that is getting the Bomb," a war in Afghanistan that will keep U.S. troops tied down "for decades to come" and a nuclear-armed Pakistan "more unstable than ever." Obama's task is "to get the world growing again and to get the most imminent threats...
...demanding that her boy meet the high standards she's set for him. It's worth noting that the director, George Tillman Jr., previously did the femme-family Soul Food - and, even more, that the movie's producers include Combs and Violetta Wallace. They come to praise Biggie. The result is not exposé but eulogy...
...expansion of financial aid and recruiting programs like the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative. This year 78 percent of applicants will apply for financial aid, up 5 percent from last year. After last year’s elimination of early admissions, applications rose 20 percent, a possible result of the increased emphasis on recruiting during a time when admissions officers would have formerly been considering early admissions applications, according to the Harvard Gazette...
...real good. For those who have no desire to spend the break doing something careerist or academic—and I’d venture to guess I’m not the only one—three weeks in January is too long to spend on campus. The result is that people will be stuck spending the vacation’s entirety at home, watching the same episode of SportsCenter four times each morning, instead of reuniting with their Harvard friends for a week. Unforgettable breaks like mine are bound to become rarer...
...minority government with the Greens that also depended on the tacit support of die Linken - "the Left" - an alliance of former East German communists and former members of the SPD. The attempt failed amid much acrimony, spooking moderate SPD voters, and doubtless contributed to the party's worst-ever result in Hesse, at 23.7% of the vote...