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...Fogg museums, which is great, because some serious learning gets done there. Enjoy exploring undiscovered pathways like the gruleings four-floor climb to your section in the Fogg. Feel proud of yourself as you learn to use the left staircase at the Sackler to avoid the normal pedestrian traffic as the guards check everyone’s bag for stolen purse-sized materpieces. (Airline x-ray scanners and bag searchers suddenly seem like a breeze.) And your knowledge of the museums will pay off big time when Aunt Doris comes to visit and you need some place to hold...
...what they do and, perhaps, a little out of step with the rest of the university. Even basic intellectual expression in the Philosophy department offers unique challenges. (Sometimes it can be tempting to throw your copy of Descartes’ “Meditations” into Mass. Ave. traffic.) Instead of running your own interpretation of the readings through your TF’s critical analysis filter (par for the course in other humanities areas, especially English), philosophy papers introduce the rudiments of philosophical thought by having students retrace the steps that other scholars have paced over for years...
...insurgency has intensified, so has carping about Karzai's failings--not just his physical remoteness but also his willingness to placate the country's warlords, his failure to take on government corruption, even his inability to get the traffic lights working in Kabul. The very qualities that catapulted Karzai to power and burnished his celebrity abroad--his flair, openness and old-world gentility--now seem to be exactly the wrong traits for a leader of a developing country at war with itself. "He brought a new face to Afghanistan by being nice to everybody," says Ahmad Nader Nadery, head...
...desire of the Afghan people, not the problems we have along the way." A first-time visitor to Kabul is struck by the relative normality of the place, the absence of the barbed wire, blast walls and paranoia that have become familiar in Baghdad. The roads bustle with traffic--the number of cars in Kabul has tripled since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. Garish new building projects loom over some of Kabul's oldest, poorest slums, dramatizing the extent to which the country is beginning to emerge from decades of underdevelopment. A late-afternoon walk through Shar...
...took office on Jan. 1, 2002. After 9/11 the nature of constituent issues drastically changed. Instead of worrying about potholes, I had to worry about whether apartment buildings were safe to live in. Instead of noise and pollution from traffic congestion, it was noise and pollution from debris cleanup. In Lower Manhattan, 9/11 is still a context for virtually all public issues. Of course there's a greater emphasis on preparedness, safety, emergency response. People still worry about the health of the volunteers, the residents, and the workers who were there. As chair of the committee for Lower Manhattan Redevelopment...