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...Harvard was almost a saner place when it was a rich old boys’ club because at least everyone was not the best,” Chopra said. “You are not going to be the best at everything here, and it is really tough for people to deal with that...
...strongman rather than with a rainbow coalition of supposed Iraqi democrats. Their calculation: a stable Iraq would be easier for the U.S. to manage after the war ends, require less messy nation building and reduce the chances that whole U.S. Army divisions would have to occupy Iraq for years. "Saner heads are prevailing," says a Western diplomat in the region. "All the talk about remaking the Middle East was harming relations with the Arabs. The political situation is too complicated to be promising Iraqis democracy...
...Saner voices in the U.S. have called for introspection. When that process does begin, here is something worth pondering: America has spent a half-century supporting dictators and tyrants all over the world (and in the Muslim world, in particular). Its reward has been global anti-Americanism. Perhaps it is time for the U.S. to abandon the fingernail-pullers and make common cause with countries like India that actually share the values that make America great?the values of freedom and democracy...
...saner world, they would be forced to live with, and as, adults for large chunks of time--making it more likely that they would actually become adults. Such a world would encourage home-schooling, for instance, by easing the economic burden for parents who choose to stay home and teach. It would offer a more flexible, decentralized system of education, balancing classroom time with, say, vocational training and programs allowing kids to work under and alongside adults in local workplaces. It would be a world where adolescents were integrated into society, not ghettoized in the local high school...
...partly on the new varied social status of women and on men's difficulties in making adjustments. Movie plots have men turning into women, women men. One of our weirder celebrities, a basketball star named Dennis Rodman, put on a bridal gown a few years ago and married himself. Saner but sadder consequences are evidenced in an absence of romance in courtship and the treatment of sex as sport...