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...environmental stewardship—from refusing to sign the Kyoto Protocol to recently pushing through midnight regulations that allow coal-power plants to be built nearer to national parks. While it may be true that Bush “has done more to protect unique areas of the world??s oceans than any other person in history” as Joshua Reichert, managing director of the Pew Environmental Group, told the New York Times on Monday, giving the President the title “Lord Neptune, King of the Seas” may be too hasty. This policy...
...tangible social services to the suffering citizens of Gaza, and that they are acting out against a sustained, violent occupation, does nothing to advance the peace process. It is worth remembering that Hamas’ rockets were wildly inefficient, homemade devices incapable of posing a real threat to the world??s fourth-largest military power. While this is not a defense of many of their poor political choices, it further highlights the disproportion of Israel’s so-called “targeted” response...
...American media preceding the invasion of Iraq.The link doesn’t completely hold, though, and that’s because an Indian newspaper has a slightly different notion of what an article should be than an American newspaper does. Reading a piece in The Times of India (the world??s top-selling English language broadsheet, with a circulation of two and a half million) is like listening to a very informed, very opinionated friend chattering into your ear. Reporting is a chummy business—and a biased one. Take, for instance, the lede of a recent...
...Huntington's most famous academic treatise espoused that cultural and religious differences between the world??s major civilizations—rather than ideological disparities between political states—would be the cause of violent conflicts in a post-Cold War world...
Because many students may not be aware of Harvard’s financial aid program, Fitzsimmons is frequently out of the office, crisscrossing the country—and the world??and constantly emphasizing his commitment to making Harvard affordable...