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Author Malcolm Gladwell captivated a sold-out crowd in First Parish Church last night for over an hour with the story of a single plane crash. He opened by asking how many listeners would be flying in the next month. When most hands went up, he said, “Then this is scary. But the most important thing...about this plane crash is that it’s scary not because it’s unusual. It’s scary because it’s typical.” The crash is “typical?...
...technically outside Iraqi jurisdiction until Jan. 1 of next year, should start to provide answers to these questions. Unfettered by the chain of command and court-martial and outside the reach of the nascent Iraqi government, these mercenaries, specifically commissioned to provide security instead of standard U.S. armed forces, went about for years almost totally free of accountability. It’s almost surprising that the 2007 shootings and the few ugly and baseless murders that preceded it were the anomalies they seem...
...Harvard activities, house life is by far the most mystifying. Harvard students love summer internships in finance, panels arbitrated by Nobel laureates, and painful comp processes. Yet unlike any of these, house life is not for anything. You can’t put the fact that you went to a house formal on your resume. “IM dodgeball” is not a marketable skill. And the people you play pool with in the basement are never going to secure you a position with Goldman Sachs...
...panel discussion moderated by Harvard Kennedy School professor Samantha Power. “It is literally true that the U.S. government does not have a joint-operating plan in Afghanistan,” said Cull, who heads the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy think tank. He went on to state that the Obama administration will work to fashion one. “Presumably better to have a joint strategy than to have none at all,” he said. Rubin, the director of studies at the Center on International Cooperation at NYU, echoed this sentiment...
...rule. The government collapsed, and militia commanders were able to seize territory, terrorize the population and, in some cases, even issue currency. The Taliban capitalized on widespread disgust with their savagery, eventually coming to power in 1996. The U.S., unwilling to commit large numbers of ground troops when it went to overthrow the Taliban government, relied instead on the northern warlords and their militias. In a grave mistake that was to haunt Afghanistan for years to come, many of those leaders were given prominent positions when the new Afghan government was formed, enabling them to claw back credibility that...