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...surprisingly, Brosnahan has a different story, one with this central, oft-repeated theme: Lindh never harmed any American. Brosnahan offers few specifics about what Lindh actually did in Afghanistan. But he says the comments from Lindh's revealing December sessions with the FBI must be ruled inadmissible, since Lindh had asked for a lawyer more than a week before but never got one. Instead the U.S. kept him floating around the Arabian Sea, where the selection of attorneys is quite limited. "Our government is playing with dynamite," Brosnahan told TIME. "[My client] has a right to counsel under the Geneva...
...speech at the Harvard Club, Summers’ explained many of his plans for the University, placing his oft-repeated priorities in the context of their international importance...
...hand, an aggressive interest in the quality of tenured faculty is encouraging, especially in light of Summers’ oft-repeated goals of improving undergraduate education as well as enriching and expanding Harvard’s faculties. Tenured professors should be first-rate scholars, with a history of brilliant research and a future that looks equally promising. The tenure process has tended to select professors with distinguished work already behind them, and it is reasonable for the University to seek scholars who will instead do their best work on this campus...
...middle section of the book deals with the Chinese diaspora. Buruma's target in Hong Kong and Taiwan is the oft intoned notion that Chinese culture is inherently antithetical to democracy?a theory that both galls and seduces many of his subjects. He points out that Taiwan's long-discredited, virtually invisible exiles?"dismissed as irrelevant and quixotic as the mainland dissidents are today"?eventually played a vital role in the island's democratization. "For democracy to succeed," Buruma suggests, "China probably needs more Taiwans...
Already Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith has been impressed to see Peljto passing the ball more often, which makes her own offense even easier. But an even more radical improvement would be a more defensive-minded Peljto. That would complement the team’s oft-repeated mantra that with the talent it has, the offense will come through, but it’s the defense that wins games...