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Nearly four and a half years after the American invasion of Iraq, five experts rejected claims made by General David H. Petraeus that the United States is making progress in Iraq and said that troops cannot be withdrawn given the country’s political troubles...
There is an incredible worth to international education and experience that cannot be found or generated in Harvard Yard. That Harvard now offers a wealth of popular summer programs does indeed testify to the growing legitimacy of studying abroad at Harvard, but that students would prefer five weeks in Spain to 25 remains befuddling and, on some level, sad. Imagine truncating the Harvard semester after five weeks during the first two months of freshman year. These accelerated and often isolated programs bring a Harvard mentality to a radically different place. We cannot bring Harvard to Bombay, Barcelona or Buenos Aires...
...cannot learn a city or even try to understand a place—much less a language—in five weeks. It took me over two months to fully grasp the public transportation system in Buenos Aires. Even after five months, I still found myself susceptible to the city’s secrets and idiosyncrasies—secrets that do not reveal themselves in the intensive language classes and all-day curriculum of Harvard Summer School programs. The notion that one can experience a city and a culture in five whirlwind weeks of language classes...
...Theological Seminary to put himself through a kind of theological boot camp. He tried to talk Graham into coming with him; Graham's unquestioning faith in the literal truth of the Bible, he said, amounted to intellectual suicide. He tried to phrase it in Graham's own terms: "You cannot disobey Christ's great commandment to love God with all thy heart and all thy soul and all thy mind." They continued to debate all year whenever their paths crossed, until finally in the summer of 1949, as Graham was preparing for what would be his breakout crusade...
...Hitchens is on more solid ground when he attacks Graham for his comments about Jews in a 1972 Oval Office meeting with Richard Nixon. That conversation was indeed vile, and since it was disclosed in 2002, Graham has apologized repeatedly for his part in it. "I cannot imagine what caused me to make those comments, which I totally repudiate," he said. "Whatever the reason, I was wrong for not disagreeing with the President ... I don't ever recall having those feelings about any group, especially the Jews, and I certainly do not have them now." When we asked Graham about...