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...Commander in Chief of living in a "world of fantasy spin" for speaking of Iraq as a budding democracy. In fact, Kerry says, Iraq has become a Hobbesian environment that is breeding terrorists and sucking U.S. forces into a Vietnam-style quagmire, a "war with no end in sight." Some Kerry advisers exulted in their candidate's straight talk. "We have gone on the offensive, and are dictating the field," says one. But the White House pounced, charging that Kerry was slouching toward defeatism. At the White House last Thursday, Bush basked in the praise of Iraq's first post...
Students dozing off behind their laptops are a common sight in large lectures at Harvard. But Government 97b, the second half of the required yearlong sophomore government tutorial, is dealing with a more serious problem—its mandatory lectures attract few students. The course policy requires all 250 enrolled students to attend lecture, according to Jacob M. Kline, the head teaching fellow. But attendance in the weekly lectures, which are not videotaped, is at a low. Government concentrator Carrie E. Andersen ’08 estimated that roughly 40 students—around 15 percent—go regularly...
...because we assume on some level that rape was an inevitabile or a logical conclusion to their behavior. By focusing on “explanations” for why rape occurs—explanations that subtly shift blame onto the alleged victim—we can lose sight of the most important facts of the situation. In the Duke lacrosse case, the alleged victim is not a ho or a stripper, she is a woman, a human being who has been through a traumatic experience, and, as such, is worthy only of our deepest sympathy and support, not attempts...
...open wound on his left hip, stayed away from the 65-ft. mound of Styrofoam beams and cargo boxes meant to represent ground zero. "I hate getting upset," he says. As soot-covered extras in police and military uniforms milled around, Jimeno was reduced to tears by the sight of the too-lifelike rubble pile. "I survived for a reason," he says. "We, as a country, have a short attention span. We don't want people to forget those who died and those who saved...
...opposing side resorted to bombs and kidnappings. Society and foreign embassies knew the coup was coming, and they welcomed it. Military officers explicitly declared that they were to change everything in a “process of national reorganization.” In their quest for security, they lost sight of what they were securing: there was no room for Congress, independent judiciary, free press, or fair trials for suspects. The Argentine military hunted subversive terrorists but then moved on to civil dissidents: they targeted everyone from union leaders to liberal college students. These people, according to the de facto...