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...abating. We were at risk before Iraq, and the threat will likely persist for as long as we can envisage. Is ASIO doing enough to keep Australia secure? The job of security intelligence is never finished. [After a bomb attack that nearly killed then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,] the IRA said: "We only have to be lucky once. You have to be lucky all the time." That is the problem with the struggle against terrorism. It is never-ending...
...portion of Harvard’s student body must face every day. But then again, we’re hard-pressed to think of any hardship facing women on this campus that this Women’s Center can possibly solve. Or maybe, as 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich seemed to suggest at the center’s grand opening, it is a sort of reparation that Harvard has paid to compensate for its historical exclusion of women. But on reflection the sheer inanity of that justification seems obvious. In reality, the Women’s Center, born...
...These groups, more than politics, name, or academics, are the College’s main asset.And if, as the house utopians suggest, these are not good enough—are not real communities because they are organizations entered into and left by choice—then, to paraphrase Mrs. Thatcher, “There is no such thing as community.”Juliet S. Samuel ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Eliot House...
...cracks of the Core. And beware the notoriously irrelevant lecturing of McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Steven Ozment, who leads B-18, “The Protestant Reformation.”If major historical events interest you less than the everyday lives of dull, dead people, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s B-40, “Pursuits of Happiness: Ordinary Lives in Revolutionary America” receives consistently high marks. And if that’s not enough of a specific year for you, there’s another; B-34, “The World...
...Rolling out former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who famously urged George H. W. Bush not to "go wobbly" ahead of the first Gulf War, was a particular bit of political hardball by the President's Hill allies as they try to stiffen spines in their caucus. And the stakes are high. The November midterm elections may hinge on national security, and McCain and company are depriving their party of its best weapon - a vote that makes Democrats look weak. More important, the White House claims, is that McCain and company could outlaw methods of gaining intelligence that have been...