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...have difficulty in finding TFs at the last moment and those that are found are often unprepared and overworked. But the quality of section leaders can be improved in many other ways, and we are willing to suffer through slightly worse sections if that means being taught by more vibrant and engaging faculty. After all, it is Harvard’s great professors that drew us here to study...
...course, China might have over-learned its lessons, and underestimated America's resolve. The U.S. went to war with Iraq in 1991 even though the Pentagon predicted 10,000 American casualties. Whether the U.S. would defend Asia's most vibrant democracy against a nuclear-armed foe in the same way it defended its access to oil in the Gulf is debatable. However, asked about Taiwan, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz says the U.S. will "strongly oppose any attempt to settle that issue by force." As for Beijing, it genuinely doesn't want to fight over Taiwan. Failure to win might...
DIED. BENJAMIN C. THOMPSON, 84, architect who transformed a decrepit waterfront in Boston into the vibrant Faneuil Hall; in Cambridge, Mass. Critics sneered at the mall as a sanitized replica of a European market, but Thompson repeated the formula across the country, including at Washington's Union Station...
LONDON—Most commentators agreed it had been a triumph for the nation, proving to the world that Britain was still vibrant and internationally relevant. With their cheerful fortitude, it was said that well-honed British youths had been models of bravery and resilience, covering themselves and their country in glory...
There is, however, one New Yorker who best champions the spirit of a Real New Yorker. His floral Hawaiian shirt and bushy mustache set a vibrant and informal tone that is affirmed by his unruly long brown hair, barely restrained by a baseball cap—almost obnoxiously worn backwards as a final jab at propriety and predictability. He is a comedian, connoisseur, entrepreneur and two-time mayoral candidate. He is Kenny Kramer—the inspiration for Seinfeld’s Cosmo Kramer...