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...anticipation of the upcoming Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) assessment of the role of students in College governance, the Undergraduate Council passed a resolution last night asserting its authority to recommend or appoint students to the review committee, which will include five students...
While short, the chapter refuting Samuel Huntington's theory of the Clash of Civilizations is particularly pertinent. Huntington posited in a 1993 essay in Foreign Affairs that conflict between Islam and the West was inevitable. Bhutto, drawing on the works of several authors in a New York Review of Books-type essay fears Huntington's work "has actually helped provoke the confrontation it predicts... The clash of civilizations theory is not just intellectually provocative: it fuels xenophobia and paranoia both in the West and in the Islamic world." Instead, she says, the tension is within Islam itself. "The failure...
...prominent legal mind that he is. During our interview, he swiveled his chair with the restless energy of a 20-something and laughed away his wife’s suggestion that he get a Blackberry.But his youthful demeanor belies his accomplished resume: an editor of the Harvard Law Review, an associate counsel on the Oliver North/Iran-Contra trial, and a former Assistant U.S. Attorney—all by age 32.At that point, in 1993, Toobin left the practice of law to cover legal affairs for The New Yorker, and a year later, he shot to notoriety when he revealed...
...Scott called Page “poised [and] frighteningly talented,” and I wondered for a moment if he had accidentally misplaced a description of Denzel Washington from “American Gangster.” I wondered that, for if I had been writing his review, I would have said something more along the lines of, “as cold and empty as space.”Ultimately, I think the reason why moviegoers and critics alike have enjoyed this film is because it avoids preachiness and hones in on the humor of a typically dramatic...
...actual wiretapping authorizations, in particular giving spies the right to listen in on foreign communications passing through the U.S. But the White House says it is unwilling to negotiate middle ground on the issue of retroactive immunity for the telecoms. The Democrats have offered two compromises: a court review of the issue to see if retroactive immunity is warranted, and a transfer of liability for past lawbreaking from the telecoms to the government. The Senate rejected both, and 21 House Democrats urged Speaker Nancy Pelosi to do the same, but she and other Democratic leaders are unwilling to back down...