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...mixed-race township on South Africa's Cape of Good Hope peninsula, he had to prove himself as a street fighter long before he ever climbed aboard a sailboat. In his early teens, he fraternized with local gangs and got in knife fights. These days, however, he puts his strength into grinding winches and helping to trim the mainsail of a sleek, 25-m America's Cup?class racing yacht. Burricks' journey from local tough guy to élite sailor is just one of the remarkable stories to come from Africa's first-ever entry in the 154-year...
...first time in years when he appeared in a video released on the Internet. The video's release coincided with the naming of Nouri al-Maliki as Iraq's new Prime Minister, who the U.S. hopes can finally form a unity government that will begin to erode the strength of the insurgency. In the video, a bearded and black-clad al-Zarqawi fires a machine gun to show off his prowess as a fighter, then aims some verbal broadsides at the enemy. He accuses the U.S. of waging a crusade against Islam, adding, "By God, your dreams will be defeated...
...visited two years ago. The landscape contained not only lush mountains and breathtaking scenery but also amazing numbers of schools and students. To see Kashmir in ruins again pains me, but I know it will make a comeback. I will once again be impressed by its people's strength of mind and body...
...professors will write only brief letters when evaluating tenure candidates outside of their fields. “Some departments delegate a bit more than other departments do,” says Martin, who is also Dillon professor of international affairs. The size of the department can also affect the strength of the tenure case that is presented for higher review by an ad hoc committee. “I think generally, larger departments make better appointments, because there’s a much greater variety of opinions about a given candidate,” says Sanskrit and Indian Studies Chair...
...system of ad hoc reviews has structurally put the president in a more important, in a more central role than in other universities,” he says. “I think that’s been a very, very important contributor to Harvard’s strength, because I don’t think there’s any substitute for conversation and questioning advocates of appointments rather than simply reading files. And so I hope very much that system will be preserved.”Presidents of other leading institutions are not as involved in the tenure...