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...picture Deputy Defense Secretary had hoped to show a skeptical American media corps during a PR tour of Iraq last weekend, before insurgents made a mockery of his efforts by slamming rockets into his hotel in the most heavily-guarded part of Baghdad. But that attack, and the carnage wrought on Monday by four suicide bombers in the capital, underline a simple truth: The issue dwarfing all others in Iraq, right now is security. Resolving the security crisis remains the key to the success or failure of the U.S.-authored transition, and on that front, right now, the picture...
...data," he says, "that was the nail in the coffin." But according to an exhaustive 2002 College Board study, the most accurate predictor of success in college--at U.C. and everywhere else--is a combination of high school grades, SAT scores and SAT II scores. The changes Atkinson has wrought may alter instruction at the "upscale private school" he talked about in his speech, but they may be corrosive, psychometrically speaking, for the rest of the nation...
...Want One, Rufus Wainwright has composed an intricately wrought folly, in the very best sense of the word. It is a folly that towers over listener’s senses, one which both loses itself in its own madness and beauty. Wainwright’s ornate gestures are overtures to himself; courting his past, his influences and his loves—not the least of which is himself. This ode to himself is also a symptom of ecstatic and enviable madness—as he himself has said only half jokingly, “I think...
This September, Astha Thapa ’07 traded in the spectacular summits of the Himalayan mountains and sloping green hills that have surrounded her since her childhood for the flat lawns and wrought iron fences of Harvard Yard...
...past two years have been a wild ride for Osama bin Laden and his followers: They've wrought mayhem in America's political and financial capitals; been driven from their Afghan sanctuaries and forced to duck and dive as scores of their top operatives have been arrested or killed; launched new attacks and continued to broadcast propaganda tapes. Most important, they've managed to survive. After all, as Henry Kissinger once observed, the conventional army loses by not winning, but the guerrilla wins by not losing...