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During the semester we only read “things we need to read”, like sourcebooks the size of New York City telephone directories, or “things we need to succeed in life,” like Bloomberg financial reports and Kaplan’s Five Practice MCATs. And it’s not like vacations free our schedules for pleasure reading either. When not being bamboozled by recruiting and frantically e-mailing cover letters to Prestigious Summer Job Guru at High-Powered Institution, we’re finally catching up on the sleep we missed...
...arguments against Fatal Huggery are obvious. Why encourage and legitimize evildoers? Why allow Kim Jong Il--the Michael Jackson of world leaders--to succeed with nuclear blackmail? Why reward the Iranians for their support of Hizballah? Fair points, all. But there is a problem: the current American policy of nonrecognition isn't working, and it may well be counterproductive. "What's the hardest job for a tin-pot dictator in the information age?" asks Joseph Nye, dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "Keeping his people isolated from the world. Why should we be making life easier for Fidel...
According to the Herald, Summers told students that “there is nothing that would set this country back, nothing that would make this country less likely to succeed, nothing that would give greater support in the long run to countries that are adversaries of the United States, than for us to have the situation where members of every group don’t feel like they have a chance to be at places like Harvard...
Medardo M. Martin ’06, one of the four students who came from Hialeah last year, said he thought Summers’ speech could help dispel perceptions that Hialeah students couldn’t succeed academically beyond local schools...
...accountability, which he sees as a road to longevity. The second? "The private sector is far less onerous in its stipulations," he insists, dismissing the idea that corporate sponsors seek to influence the creative direction of the artists or galleries they sponsor. Can the marriage of art and business succeed? To find out, TIME looked at three countries on the frontier where artistic vision meets financial pressure. LONDON Clear voices, raised in song, rang through St. Paul's Church in London's Covent Garden late last month. The music was "a singing strike" by choristers from the English National Opera...