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...changed no one’s mind. Life went on as before. As students, we were proud of Harvard and its administration for its steadfast support of the notion that the function of a university is to be a marketplace of ideas, where any viewpoint, no matter how unpopular and even dangerous it may seem, is entitled to be heard with respect. We believed, as did the men and women who taught at Harvard, that the antidote for hateful ideas was the expression of other ideas. We thought that was the right way to deal with the ideological crises...
Many career spooks are said to be thrilled by the symbolism of bringing back a man who stood up to the unpopular Goss, who quit last month. But the return of Kappes, who declined interview requests last week, is receiving some mixed reviews. An official says that because of his stiff bearing and often militaristic management, the devoutly Catholic ex-Marine is referred to by some career CIA officers as the Great Santini, an allusion to the obstinate title character of the 1979 film. And House Intelligence Committee chairman Peter Hoekstra worries about installing military and intel insiders such...
...investigation into their grievances. As street gangs fought running battles over east-west island rivalries through the suburbs of Becora and Fatuahi, the rebels launched attacks against the military headquarters at Tasi Tolu, 6 km from Dili. The civilian government seemed paralyzed, with rumors of dissension between the unpopular Alkatiri and President Xanana Gusm?o, a resistance hero...
...some men in Kilo Company apparently snap? Perhaps because of the stress of fighting a violent and unpopular war--or because their commanders failed them. Military psychiatrists who have studied what makes a soldier's moral compass go haywire in battle look first for a weak chain of command. That was a factor in the March 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, when U.S. soldiers, including members of an Army platoon led by Lieut. William Calley, killed some 500 Vietnamese. Says a retired Army Green Beret colonel who fought in Vietnam: "Somebody has failed to say, 'No, that...
Blair is now the most unpopular Labour Party Prime Minister since World War II, with a 26% approval rating. In local elections two weeks ago, Labour took a drubbing, slumping to third place behind the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. Blair has already said he will step down during this Parliament--effectively, no later than 2009--to make room for his heir apparent, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown. But a third of voters want Blair to go now, and the political village at Westminster is so consumed with succession gossip that his stature shrinks more every...