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...important that FAS harmonize with Harvard’s vision of its future. Harvard could undoubtedly hire many more female professors without the slightest compromise in the quality of the hires, and, indeed, it plans to do so. The hiring of younger faculty, scholars whose most productive days still lie ahead of them, can only add to the vivacity and brilliance of academic life. We appreciate that Harvard can and does attract the eminences grises of various fields, but we also wish that FAS would nab the enterprising youngsters who are, with flair and vigor, forging completely new fields...
...Being lied to by the White House for four years may have something to do with voters’ confusion. The list of fabrications is all too familiar now—Iraq would be a “cakewalk,” there was “no doubt” that Saddam had nukes, Mohammad Atta had met with Iraqi agents in Prague—but as another practiced demagogue, Vladimir Lenin, once said, “A lie told often enough becomes the truth...
While Pepi finds the charm of the show to lie within the ability of the viewer to feel like he or she can relate to the characters featured on the program, or at least being able to say, “I know that person,” don’t expect mentions of Harvard to litter scripts...
...have dominated the Palestinian Authority and the failed Oslo negotiation process; and a younger generation of activists committed to continuing the intifadah. While Abbas publicly denounces the intifadah as a catastrophic strategic error that has set back hopes of Palestinian statehood, and insists that the Palestinians best hopes lie in doing whatever it takes to restore their relationship with Washington and pursuing a new diplomatic solution, Barghouti advocates a two-state solution but proclaims armed struggle and the intifadah, rather than simply seeking the good offices of the U.S. (which the Palestinians have viewed as hopelessly biased in favor...
...negotiate a peace deal with Israel that they would deem tantamount to a Palestinian surrender in exchange for very little. Many of those urging him to drop out believe splitting the Palestinian national movement now would be a victory for its enemies, and hold that their best hopes lie in backing Abbas at the same time as restraining him by virtue of his dependence on their support...