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...that spirit of cooperation won't last forever. The further that Iraq slides into civil war, the more the Kurds will want to insulate themselves from it, by carving out more political and economic autonomy for themselves. Though Kurds have thus far accommodated themselves to the American policy for a unified Iraq, that spirit of cooperation won't last forever. Even if they stop short of outright secession, the Kurds could still open up new conflicts in Iraq, if their impatience with the fecklessness of the Baghdad government prompts them to take action on their own-especially in determining...
...avoid imposing a one-format-fits-all requirement on general education courses.”With such broad power, the new committee promises to become a bureaucratic monster like its predecessor, stifling curricular and pedagogical flexibility and operating only in line with the letter, not the spirit, of its governing legislation. The new standing committee may begin life as an agent of reform, as the Core committee did, but over time, dynamism will inevitably devolve into inertia. If the Task Force’s rhetoric of flexibility and openness is to become reality, it must be explicitly enshrined...
...emotional roller-coaster of Housing Day—when the winnowing fan of the random lottery indiscriminately determines freshmen’s residential fate—is nothing if not an effusion of the much-vaunted yet sparingly-sighted sentiment known as “House spirit...
...fairy promises of “community.” On Housing Day, there is seemingly no sadness—there is only the comfort and contentment of knowing your next three years will be spent alongside House-mates similarly imbued with a proud sense of “spirit...
...despite this Bacchanalia, Harvard House spirit spends most of the year convalescing in a state of torpidity...