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...errand, you say, and you may be right. The road from here to anything resembling a functioning country is daunting. But now, at least, we are brutally aware of all the plans and strategies that haven't worked. Our universe of potential idiocies has been diminished, and this painful wisdom may, in itself, be cause for dour optimism. Long past are the days when a U.S. proconsul, the extremely unfortunate L. Paul Bremer, would attempt to design a new Iraqi national flag (and produce something that looked like the Israeli one). Indeed, there are signs that the Bush Administration...
...into an international thrill ride in his books Investment Biker and Adventure Capitalist. His latest effort, Hot Commodities, explains how to invest in everything from tin to coffee--with detours into Brazilian sugar farms and Dutch smuggling rings. TIME's JYOTI THOTTAM asked him for some New Year's wisdom...
Conventional wisdom has long held that mammals spent millions of years in Darwinian limbo. As long as dinosaurs roamed the earth, our distant ancestors never got to be much more than cringing, shrewlike creatures that slinked out at night to nibble timorously on plants and insects when the terrible lizards were asleep. Only when a rogue comet wiped the dinosaurs out, went the story, did mammals begin to earn a little evolutionary respect...
...conversation took the twists and turns that late night rambles usually do, and was thoroughly unremarkable for most of its duration. After awhile, though, Dartboard and his roommate managed to glean one bit of wisdom, the surprising frequency with which people were summed up with one of two words: good...
...strong desire to align the University’s multiple calendars, the end of January finals seems all but inevitable. Still, for the past year, the question of whether to institute a J-Term has been handled separately from the larger calendar changes. There is much wisdom in this approach because, although students may never agree on whether January finals are preferable, students can unite in their opposition to the misguided movement afoot to bring a J-Term to Harvard. Although sometimes attractive on paper, a J-Term is no solution for Harvard’s woes; on the contrary...