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...course, many critical features of politics are distorted when they are quantified. Albert Einstein was apparently fond of a remark that “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” (There is a deeper mathematical insight here that underlies much of modern statistics and decision theory; for an introduction, see Patrick Billingsley, Convergence of Probability Measures.) And so hundreds of political science courses at Harvard and elsewhere continue to offer readings in political philosophy, American political development and political history, and legal and administrative decisions...
...only people with high self-control who slip up this way - and that can lead to real problems. In the real world, menus contain a lot more than just four options, and anyone confronted with a plate of greens may be tempted to plunge even deeper into the high-calorie, high-fat wasteland that lies beyond mere french fries and Oreos. What's more, vicarious goal fulfillment plays out in subtler ways too. People who are mindful about staying active and working out often notice that on days when they've gone to the gym, they're more inclined...
...former CIA Director Michael Hayden argued that abusive interrogations do indeed work. He cited the arrest of a mid-level al-Qaeda member who helped coordinate 9/11, Ramzi bin al-Shibh. According to Hayden, Abu Zubaydah gave up the name after being waterboarded. This may be true, but the deeper question is, Was it worth the candle? Isn't all of the international condemnation, not to mention the demoralization of the CIA, too high a price to pay for the arrest of a mid-level al-Qaeda operative? (See pictures of the aftermath of Abu Ghraib...
Raleigh is part of a new generation of South African filmmakers determined to take back the country's stories and invest them with a spirit that goes deeper than skin. He produced 2005's Tsotsi, a film about a township hoodlum who steals a car - and the rich black couple's baby in its back seat - which shattered once and for all the naive but, among outsiders, popular notion that all South Africa's stories can be framed in terms of black and white. Another is director Michael Raeburn, who has just released Triomf, a bleak examination of a poor...
...France's northern coast ended their two-day blockade Thursday - but promised to be back if their grievances weren't addressed. Few in France question the readiness to deliver on those and other threats of uprising by workers around the nation whose jobs are imperiled as recession bites deeper. Indeed, that kind of action is only an updated echo of France's historical penchant for insurgency in response to adversity - a tradition now making a comeback with the global economic crisis...