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...chosen to draw the poster. "Well, one of us has to do it, and since you’re the girl, why not you?" was the justification. That was more than enough for my taste, but later that week, during the presentation itself, my professor patted me on the shoulder and called me the "gender balance" of my project. I was stunned. After almost a year at Harvard—where sometimes, I felt slightly out of place because of my sex—I had the bitter taste of covert discrimination lingering in my mouth as I left Cambridge...
...rebuff is coming from the other side, for equally understandable reasons. Mutual defense of NATO territory is one thing; the call to stand shoulder to shoulder in a bedeviled country thousands of miles away from Europe is a more troublesome proposition. It isn't simply a question of resources: Canada is on the front line despite an anemic defense budget. For all the lip service paid to Afghanistan as a war that cannot be lost, there seems to be a lack of political will to do what is necessary...
...lights flashing or sirens wailing, the commission is proposing nothing short of a repudiation of pretty much all U.S. foreign policy for the past three years. The Iraq Study Group will call for a massive diplomatic push in two areas in which the White House has never put its shoulder to the grindstone: rekindling peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis and holding an international conference that would lead to direct talks between Washington and both Tehran and Damascus. The commission agreed that the political turmoil inside Iraq could only be sorted out with the cooperation of neighboring countries, particularly Syria...
...prove the rule. Among the few memorable wartime photographs is one not of the war, but of three young warriors observing a battle occurring below their hillside post.Two of the onlookers, each carrying bows and arrows, wrap their arms around themselves, so that a hand rests on each shoulder. Their backs are turned away from the camera, but to a surprisingly evocative effect.The warriors’ morale, expressed by their clenched fists, is ambiguous: is it fear? Excitement? Anxiety? Anticipation? The exercise is unresolvable, yet gratifyingly engrossing.Admirably, Bubriski and the Peabody staff have refrained from exoticizing either the Dani...
...Maliki will likely seek to restore the Sadrists to his coalition rather than face the collapse of his government. But the reason Washington wants Sadr out is that his group is widely viewed as a key source of sectarian violence. So as long as Maliki is looking over his shoulder in Sadr's direction rather than in Bush's, the prospects for his government enacting a national reconciliation plan that could reverse the trend towards civil war remain grim...