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...vacation plans. But how many of you have a parenting plan?" Not a hand goes up and the room falls silent save for the soft drone of an air conditioner. It's embarrassing for these upstanding burghers of Singapore-so methodical and conscientious in their professional lives-to dwell upon the possibility that they might be falling short at home, but Wong lets them fidget and cough for a few more moments before resuming. "Watching your children over the Internet is one thing," he says, "but the goal of parenting is to get them to do the right thing when...
...Kurdish region, unlike the rest of Iraq, is open for business. Passengers flying into Baghdad have to endure a corkscrew landing to avoid possible surface-to-air-missiles. But a trip to Erbil is so safe that I was the only passenger on my flight packing body armor. Upon arrival, my biggest problem was the $50 fare charged for a 10-minute cab ride by the drivers of Hello Taxi, and finding a reservation at one of the city's packed hotels...
...Einstein's answer was to look upon free will as something that was useful, indeed necessary, for a civilized society, because it caused people to take responsibility for their own actions. "I am compelled to act as if free will existed," he explained, "because if I wish to live in a civilized society I must act responsibly." He could even hold people responsible for their good or evil, since that was both a pragmatic and sensible approach to life, while still believing intellectually that everyone's actions were predetermined. "I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible...
...Bush see the light seems to be to force him to do so through legislation. But we oppose politically mandated timetables nonetheless. Let there be no mistake: America must withdraw from Iraq. But planning for such a move must be military in nature, flexible, and amenable to changes depending upon quickly-changing dynamics on the ground. Though the Bush administration has no exit strategy, neither do the Democrats—they simply have a date. The game of political brinksmanship being played by Congressional leadership and the President is a dangerous one; the lives of American soldiers hang...
...science collection, consists of a sparsely populated reading room and two dark, low-ceilinged levels of subterranean stacks. It boasts a rusty dumbwaiter and an old-fashioned vault originally intended to hold the most valuable parts of the collection.But the library’s primary feature today is row upon row of eerily empty shelves.Littauer holds over 400,000 volumes and pamphlets, according to a 2004-2005 University library annual report, making it by that measure one of Harvard College Library’s four largest library collections. In the 2006 fiscal year, however, there were only 7,340 loans...