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...have had many conversations with Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims about the cartoons. The issue of freedom of speech is not well understood by them. But the reasoning behind their outrage does not lack merit. Westerners can claim that we are totally free to print or write anything we wish. That people are offended is assumed to be less important than the right to express oneself in a free society. But am I free to print a pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic article in Germany? Of course not. Ronald Monsen Dhahran, Saudi Arabia...
These personal connections were not a public relations stunt. Summers put his budget and his administration on the line. He challenged faculty to dramatically increase the quality of a Harvard education. From the moment he arrived, Summers understood the embarrassing fact that Harvard is great because we admit great students, not because we give them a great faculty-led education. Of course, the students know this too, explaining why Harvard students rate their educational experience less positively than the students at almost all of our peer institutions. Summers led the charge to revamp the curriculum and improve the quality...
David R. Gergen, a professor of public service at the Kennedy School who has advised four U.S. presidents and counseled Summers during last winter’s women-in-science storm, said, “I never understood all the grievances that...
Travis R. Kavulla ’06-’07, the editor of the Salient, said in an interview yesterday that he understood and sympathized with the concerns of Muslim students on campus...
...concerns included what was going on in an office down the hall, where Vice President Dick Cheney had been lying low since shooting his friend Harry Whittington in a late afternoon quail hunt in Texas over the weekend. Not just the communications pros and the commentariat but Bush too understood that Cheney needed to get out there and tell his story, but the Vice President was still resisting. Until Cheney said something, Bush couldn't talk to reporters either. There would be no other story, no other message than that the Vice President of the United States had accidentally shot...