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...this point, given the priority that the report has given to advising vis-a-vis things like the Core, I’m not particularly confident that pre-concentration advising is going to be vastly improved,” Mahan said...
However, if assimilation is not taking place at a fast enough rate, then prudence and principle alike dictate a more restrictionist policy. As Huntington convincingly shows, that is the situation we face today vis-à-vis Mexican immigration. He quotes former National Intelligence Council Vice Chairman Graham Fuller, who says of the Mexican-dominated regions of the American Southwest, “We may be building toward the one thing that will choke the melting pot, an ethnic area and grouping so concentrated that it will not wish, or need, to undergo assimilation into the mainstream of American multi...
Actually, my monomania vis-à-vis Paul Simon is not unique. It is just a particularly unfortunate manifestation of the monomania that consumes many of us during our Harvard careers. Living at home, I couldn’t listen to the same album over and over unmolested. (It’s not that I haven’t tried; over the summer, I kept a single mix CD in the car my brother and I share. After a few weeks, my brother threw down a gauntlet: “If I start the car and hear...
Sadly, he hasn’t reviewed any of the recent, stellar crop of Harvard-related films. “I didn’t realize this was a pattern,” he says, frowning. “I have to address my movie viewing vis-à-vis films about Harvard...
...Mahathir should be praised for leading a once backward nation toward first-world standards of living. He also made the developing world proud when he stood up to international financial institutions and imposed capital controls. Further, his unflinching criticism of the U.S.'s unilateral and pre-emptive policy vis-?-vis "rogue states" should stand as a warning to sycophantic countries. Still, despite Malaysia's success, one has to wonder if it might have been possible for Mahathir to achieve all that he did without resorting to strong-arm tactics, like jailing his political rival Anwar Ibrahim. If development could...