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Sending Rice to salvage the ruin that is American foreign policy is much like sending Jack the Ripper to conduct the autopsy of his victims. Rice is complicit in creating the policies that have reduced our standing in the world to that of a bullying and ignorant monolith blinded by its own elevated sense of importance. Like President George W. Bush, Secretary Rice needs to admit numerous mistakes before she can hope to shape the government of other nations...
...effort to address the diverse and complex issues of the black community will certainly begin to dispel the myth of the monolith, but it also will spark more questions, conversations, and debate about who our identity and relation to world around us. And these questions gain special significance during this month—Black History Month—when we recommit ourselves to working towards a day when black history, culture, and the black experience(s) are discussed 365 days a year, not just by us, but by everyone in the Harvard community...
...completed work on the famous 200-in. glass mirror for the Hale Telescope at Mount Palomar; beyond that size, glass mirrors tend to sag and distort un-acceptably, affected both by their own weight and by changes in temperature. The only larger mirror in the world, a 236-in. monolith atop Mount Semirodriki in the Soviet Union, is apparently hopelessly flawed and has done little significant work since being completed in 1974. One solution to the size problem is to make several smaller mirrors work together, simulating a single large one. The computer-synchronized Multiple-Mirror Telescope atop Mount Hopkins...
...messier reality emerged. What once appeared an extreme anti-Western monolith splintered into different factions. In Iraq, the ground zero of civilizational clash, the turning point was the bombing of the Samarra mosque, a site sacred to Shi'ite Muslims. From that horrifying moment onward, what had been a mainly Sunni insurgency against occupying infidel troops became a civil war between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims. The dynamic within Islam in the Middle East shifted from one that pitted Islam against the West to one that pitted Islam against itself. Evidence emerged of Iranian support for Shi'ite militias, alongside...
...what happens when Russian oil companies have their headquarters at the Kremlin," says Robert Amsterdam, the lawyer for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the jailed former head of Russian oil company Yukos, which authorities seized and broke up in late 2004. Remarks by a top official at Gazprom, the national energy monolith, just two days after Shell's setback, fueled speculation that it was trying to get a big piece of the Sakhalin projects; in a speech, deputy director Aleksandr Ananenkov laid out a broad vision for that company to link oil fields in eastern Siberia with the Sakhalin project to create...