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...very serious and intense and thoughtful student,” Delbanco, now a professor at Columbia, says. “He took his work very seriously and it was a great pleasure to have him in the class...
...Almost as a disclaimer, Oz throws in a scary story of a young woman’s battle with an eating disorder. While quite serious and genuine, the story loses its effect when Oz stresses counting calories on later pages...
...undergraduate who fell from Leverett House two weeks ago has been upgraded to “good condition” at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The student, Steven R. Snyder ’04-’08, was listed in “serious condition” last week. According to hospital policies, Beth Israel categorizes patients as “good,” “fair,” “serious,” and ”critical.” “Good condition” signifies that the patient?...
...chaotic and bitter for a new power-sharing deal among the Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds. The last best chance to restore order and hold Iraq together may be a dramatic ecumenical expansion of the Iraqi security forces under new leadership. We need to rectify the most serious error we made in Iraq after our initial military success and restore elements of the Baath Party, especially its former Shi'ite military leaders, to positions of power. Each of Iraq's neighbors, with the exception of Iran, believes that some version of this proposal is the best immediate course of action...
Iran will dominate the Shi'ite south. Iran's Iraqi allies already dominate Shi'ite southern Iraq. If the U.S. were serious about countering Iran's influence, U.S. troops would have to forcefully disarm the Shi'ite militias and dismantle the southern theocracies. But this would mean taking on a whole new enemy in Iraq and also require committing more troops. The Bush Administration has no intention of doing either. Right now, Iran's allies control both the central government in Baghdad and the south. Partition would limit Iran's influence to the southern half of Iraq...