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...achieve peace by unilaterally setting the border, thereby annexing as much as half of the West Bank and Jerusalem and leaving 4 million Palestinians in a series of disconnected cantons? Mike Barnes Watford, England Lessons Unlearned In his Viewpoint [April 17], Josef Joffe traces the trajectory of the economic rise of China and compares it to the past examples of Germany and Japan, which, of course, ended badly. He concludes that this time things could be different because of the lessons of history and a price of miscalculation, which is now obviously very high. What a forlorn hope! As recent...
...rise from self-publishing author to being represented by an agent and awaiting a contract with a publishing house, Ben-Shahar said, “I waited for an opportunity that came...
...students also said they intended to rise at dawn to celebrate...
...Gifts from donors are up year after year, and alumni participation in the Harvard College Fund—which dipped to a 16-year low last year—is also on the rise, according to Harvard spokeswoman Sarah Friedell...
...intimidating air, Bolingbroke was seemingly ready to get into a fight at any moment. Banished and disinherited within the first couple scenes of the play, he assembles an alliance of the many lords mistreated by Richard and invades England. Despite the title, the play is more about his rise than Richard’s fall. After Richard died, the action shifted to depicting the consolidation of Bolingbroke’s power, but oddly enough, rather than letting the humor die with the most humorous character, Zalisk amped up the farce. There was a scene of an assassination attempt played...