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Despite the lack of blog or profile, summer school student Baltazar A. Zavala ’11 doesn’t feel deprived of Lue’s personal touch. Zavala says that Lue insisted that his students call him by his first name and even took them on field trips to Shanghai’s art district where he would wow them with his art knowledge. Lue was also with them during down times: on a train ride to Beijing Lue and a bunch of students sat and swapped stories about their lives for hours to pass the time...
...Obama has made some mistakes on Afghanistan, and so has the military, but having a six-month strategic review is not one of them. No doubt, the President should have spoken with McChrystal more than once over the summer. The military's mistake was going ahead with a flawed battle plan that did not secure Kandahar, the second largest Afghan city and the fulcrum of the insurgency. That mistake made the six-month strategy review necessary, as did two other factors: the disastrously corrupt Afghan presidential election and a vastly improved capability to gather intelligence on al-Qaeda, which...
...deputy communications director Dan Pfeiffer, the more hyperbolic attacks on health-care reform this summer, which were often covered as a "controversy," flipped an internal switch. "When you are having a debate about whether or not you want to kill people's grandmother," he explains, "the normal rules of engagement don't apply...
...targeting Democrats instead of Republicans, he has warmed - for now, anyway - his relations with party colleagues. GOP leaders who once lived in fear of McCain's bombs now toast him at party conferences and join him in chummy colloquies on the Senate floor. McCain spent part of his summer vacation touring the country with minority leader Mitch McConnell, a longtime nemesis on campaign-finance reform, and the two men inveighed against the evils of Obamacare. "He's been constructive. He's been part of the team," says Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. "He's provided the kind of adult, grownup...
...Proliferation Treaty (NPT). When Iran insists it won't negotiate over its "nuclear rights," that's a signal that it has no intention of giving up enrichment. And the Iranians have thus far declined to discuss the "freeze for freeze" proposal that was offered by the West last summer, in which no further sanctions would be adopted if Iran simply refrained from expanding its existing enrichment capacity. (See pictures of the world's worst nuclear disasters...