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...claims to a rightful share of power. On the streets in the Khadamiyah neighborhood of Baghdad, al-Sadr's outspoken defiance made quiescent Shi'ites feel good. Militia guarding a Shi'ite shrine were giddy with pride in standing up to the Americans. Even those who trusted Sistani's wisdom were frustrated by his silence. "The Americans are listening to us," said one, "and they are scared...
...leaving is a direct response to the process to which the Bureau has been subjected over the past several years, a process characterized by a profound and consistent lack of sensitivity and wisdom surrounding the choice to move the Bureau from the educational auspices of [the Faculty of Arts and Sciences] into the clinical structure of UHS,” she wrote. “For the past two years, I have witnessed the concerns of my colleagues, all of whom feel passionately about their work with Harvard students, go deliberately and consistently unheeded. This has been profoundly disheartening...
...think it’s natural that like any type of institutions, universities should carefully review what their peer institutions are doing, and then move on to their own considerations. No one has perfect wisdom or insight into these issues,” Bravman says...
Consistency is one of those qualities that act like a virtue without necessarily being one. While we would like our Presidents to be consistently wise, it is the wisdom we are really after. But consistency and its cousin certainty still hold a sacred place in our politics. The charge that a candidate has flip-flopped on some position is not a political attack so much as a personal one. It is less about the issues being debated than about the instincts being revealed, about honor and honesty and nerve under fire. How tight the label sticks depends...
...trouble transcending the preciousness of its genre, chiefly since Kweller is barely aware of the world beyond his window. The twee My Apartment feels like a reworking of Weezer's even more twee In the Garage, and at 22, Kweller is still vulnerable to bouts of yearbook wisdom, like "All the answers and the dreams/Will come to you in time...