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...easy to forget that when the U.S. began interrogating al-Qaeda operatives in 2002, the CIA had no idea what it was doing. The last time the agency had been charged with conducting hostile interrogations was during the Vietnam era, and most of those officers were long retired. The wisdom inside the CIA has always been that the best intelligence is obtained through persuasion rather than coercion. New CIA recruits have even been counseled against using blackmail because the information it produced couldn't be relied...
Although conventional wisdom says that it is hard for freshmen to score, first-year attacker Jeff Cohen notched a career-high six goals at Harvard Stadium on Saturday to lift the No. 17 Harvard men’s lacrosse team over Holy Cross, 11-4. Mired in a three game losing streak with defeats to a trio of nationally ranked Ivy opponents, the Crimson (6-5, 1-3 Ivy) squared off against the Crusaders (3-11, 0-6 Patriot) in a non-league matchup. After a slow start, the Harvard attack struck early and often to stop its losing ways...
...fewer rules a coach has, the fewer there are for players to break. -on his approach to coaching, in The Book of Football Wisdom...
...Wednesday. After the talk, the Dalai Lama plans to plant a tree with University President Drew Faust, and later receive a citation from Harvard, said Sangay. The following day, he will participate in a panel discussion called “Meditation and Psychotherapy—Cultivating Compassion and Wisdom,” at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, organized by the Harvard Medical School’s Department of Psychiatry and the Cambridge Health Alliance. There, the Dalai Lama will speak on compassion and wisdom along with several Harvard professors, including psychology professor Steven Pinker. On May 2, the Tibetan...
...starting to question their security. Dinner party conversations, which once centered on the latest socialite gossip, have become taut with fear and despair. It's a malaise that has gripped the nation. "How can one be hopeful about the political future of a country where the will and the wisdom of politicians becomes hostage to the threats of barbarians?" writes student Sehar Tariq, in an opinion piece in the English daily The News. "How can I feel secure in a country where the army, despite receiving the largest chunk of our resources, cannot defeat a bunch of thugs...