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...final lesson we can glean from the fall of Constantinople is that Western failure to react decisively to emerging threats can have consequences far more serious than any would have predicted. This is a particularly salient lesson for our time, as the threats we face are not yet massive enough to draw our undivided attention. While the Turks were still raiding the Anatolian steppe, few, if any, Europeans would ever have guessed that not only would they eventually conquer the “Second Rome,” a city which legend said would never be conquered, but that they...
...every year, Summers offered the first-years comfort by relating his own experiences navigating his first semester as president at Harvard in 2001. He told an anecdote about a clerk refusing him a Harvard Coop number because he lacked a Harvard ID, and quoted Harry Truman’s salient remarks about his time in the United States Senate: “The first six months I couldn’t figure out why I was there. For the rest of the time, I wondered why the others were there...
Good article, Joe, but I think you have forgotten one salient point: both filmmaker Michael Moore and talk-show host Rush Limbaugh are in the entertainment business. And business is good. TIMOTHY J. HAYES Indianapolis...
...expect a President to agree with us on every issue. Here in the center, we see the differences between the two political parties and wish we could find a hybrid of them. Jim Ferris Mesa, Arizona, U.S. Good article, Joe, but I think you have forgotten one salient point: both filmmaker Michael Moore and talk-show host Rush Limbaugh are in the entertainment business. And business is good. Timothy J. Hayes Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. I don't know why there was a question mark in Klein's title phrase "America Divided?" I have been around since the Franklin Roosevelt Administration...
...Perhaps surname-keeping seems less salient as a way of publicly supporting equality for women than it did in the late 1970s and 1980s,” the study said...