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...don’t have that advantage. That’s why they need to tell us they’ve been reading “Crime and Punishment” and watching “Amelie” again. Everyone has heard of Harvard, and this makes a wider range of people want to come. It also means that your average Harvard student is more—dare I say?—normal than your average Yalie. Harvard’s sheer world fame draws excellent students from all countries and backgrounds while Yale, less-known, still feeds...
...world, France's nationwide transport strike Wednesday will look like just another in a long line of work stoppages by French workers and their notoriously militant labor unions. Here on Planet France, however, those protests over proposed pension cutbacks are being viewed as the first major battle in a wider zero-sum war - the outcome of which will determine the fate of President Nicolas Sarkozy's vast reform program...
...Most important for the U.S., Somalia has wider international ramifications for terrorism. It has been a home to al-Qaeda-funded Islamist radicals since the early 1990s. The Ethiopians invaded to topple the Union of Islamic Courts (U.I.C.), which had ruled Mogadishu for six months and whose leader declared a jihad on Ethiopian troops then operating inside Somalia. According to insurgents I spoke to this summer in Mogadishu, U.S. intervention alongside Ethiopian forces - U.S. warplanes carried out at least two strikes on suspected Islamists in the south of the country in January, and a warship unleashed an artillery barrage...
...accidentally while running after the car that Sandri and friends were fleeing in after taking part in the fight. Of course no one should die in such circumstances, and the judicial process should determine the full extent of police culpability. But the outrage should run both deeper, and wider. It should begin with the fact that the kind of violence that erupted in and near stadiums after news of Sandri's death emerged has become as much of a consistent ritual in Italy as a morning espresso. While the country's sports "intelligentsia" debated whether all games should have been...
We’ve been told all our lives that American culture likes things big, and nowhere is this axiom more evident than in our eating habits. Just as Americans worship largeness in all its forms, buying ever-bigger cars to venture out into ever-wider landscapes, their restaurant portions are often twice as large as their European counterparts. But amidst this expansion of expansion—and the brashness that often accompanies it—there is a counterculture that races to embrace all things small.At the forefront of the miniaturization are “twee” kids...