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Brandt is not the first Harvard faculty member to recently speak out against the dangers of smoking. In February, Harvard School of Public Health Dean Barry R. Bloom gave a presentation to the Motion Picture Association of America indicating that exposing children to smoking in movies increases their odds of eventually becoming smokers...
...showed us how to live as something more than just a Briton, a Muslim or a Pakistani. At a concert in New Jersey once, an American fan, taking him for a terrorist, challenges Manzoor to name his favorite Springsteen songs. As he starts to reel off the numbers that speak to him - one after another - the clash of civilizations suddenly begins to sound remote, and we're in the midst of a mass sing-along in which white and black and "other" hardly make any sense...
...final word on foreign policy: beware those candidates who speak glowingly, uncritically about multilateralism. Clearly, a new era of international cooperation is necessary, given the rise of viral nonstate threats like terrorism, global warming, transnational criminal gangs and corporate powers, and actual viruses like hiv. But the failure of our NATO allies to fulfill their military quotas in Afghanistan raises a real question about which if any countries will be ready to stand with the U.S. when military action is necessary-a difficult problem for the next President...
...Twenty years ago, on the morning of June 12, 1987, Reagan arrived in Berlin, on the occasion of the city's 750th birthday. He was scheduled to speak on the Western side of the Brandenburg Gate, for years the city's symbolic dividing line. His speechwriters had drafted an address intended as much for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, with whom Reagan was forging a close relationship, as for the 20,000 people who gathered to hear him speak. In the speech, Reagan would call on Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, but that language was opposed strongly by Reagan...
...already "one-third minority." Others worry about language preservation. Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado gave a breathless defense of the English language at the G.O.P. debate, saying that bilingualism has failed other countries and that the U.S. was fast headed in that direction. Yes, it's true: Mexicans speak Spanish. Relax. Mexicans also know that English is the key to getting ahead in the U.S. When Beardstown opened a bilingual program for all the kids in the elementary school, Hispanic parents were as worried as white parents about missing out on an English-only education. Assimilation is slow...