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...offices and hotel suites to maintain the veil of secrecy. According to The Crimson, Summers’ final interview was held in the Presidential Suite of the Boston Harbor Hotel.FROM ONE TO THE OTHERWhile the length of Summers’ tenure—the shortest since the Civil War??might be unusual, the onslaught of criticism at its close is by no means unique. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand recalls controversy surrounding presidential searches dating back to 1909. President Charles William Eliot, Class of 1853, transformed Harvard into a research university. Forty...
Iraq doesn’t need a civil war??there is plenty of unrest as it is. Instead, in the wake of yet another act of terrorism by Sunni insurgents, Iraqi Shiites, and the global Islamic community, need to wage a new type of war, one in which suicide bombs and death threats are conspicuously absent: a civil war of words. Wordplay aside, such a campaign would be targeted not at the usual suspects of America and the West, but at the internal evil that has given Islam such a bad name. Once again, Jihad Momani, addressing...
...Chinese were growing at home many times more opium than the British, or anyone else, could import, and they kept on doing it. Professor Harry Gelber is a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies. He will be giving a talk on the “Opium War?? at the Center for European Studies at 2:15 p.m. on Friday, February 24th...
...committed. It is her purgatory and almost—but not quite—her absolution. Set against the carnage and devastation of World War II, McEwan’s masterpiece is a tale of personal estrangement and shattered community, individual guilt and collective suffering, childhood, and war??and the survival of love in the midst...
...think at the beginning, people thought I was making these things up,” he says.In most of these frustrations, Robbins points his finger at the “media,” which he believes was responsible for faulty reporting during the war??s earliest stages and continues to do so. “The shameful thing is that CNN allowed that to happen. And NBC, ABC, and the rest [of the major news outlets],” Robbins says. “There was no journalist standing in the way at the time, even though...