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...small boy amidst the patriotism of the Second World War. I learned to love America as the face of liberty, the palladium of justice, and the embodiment of the ideal of government under law, not under men. This paramount place of Law is etched in Latin above the entrance to our law school; it is our shining national ideal, the religion of America, the essence of the enlightenment that flowed from our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights...
...Above all, global health and energy and environment are critical areas for the education of our undergraduates and graduate and professional students. The problems of global health and of energy and environment are of interest to many students because they represent some of the paramount problems facing the world today. In consonance with the stated goals of the new General Education curriculum, they connect a liberal education with the problems of the real world that students will engage after graduation. Harvard recognizes the importance of such endeavors. Even today, we must continue to gain strength...
Since last autumn, when Kim Jong Il suffered a stroke, the question of succession in North Korea has become paramount. Though Kim, according to intelligence reports, has resumed most of his duties, his own obvious frailty led even him, analysts believe, to begin preparing for the inevitable. Since becoming ill, as TIME revealed last month, Pyongyang has effectively been run by Kim Jong Il's brother-in-law, Chang Sung Taek, who is married to the dictator's younger sister, the sibling Kim is reportedly closest to. (The fluid, unpredictable nature of politics around the ruler can never be underestimated...
...depth of his Asia experience and the sense that he understands the concerns of policymakers on this side of the Pacific are now of paramount importance. Chinese leaders have expressed deep concerns about the Obama Administration's efforts to shore up companies and the economy with massive government spending programs, and it is up to Geithner to provide assurances that the value of China's vast holdings of U.S. bonds will not be debased as a result of America's rising deficits. Indeed, a question Geithner heard from a bright young Peking University student is the same...
...will replace James Yannatos, who first joined the HRO in 1964. An eight-member conductor search committee composed of students, faculty, and other stakeholders appointed Cortese to the post from a field of nearly 200 applicants. “The voices of the students in the orchestra were paramount in everything that we were doing,” said Jack Megan, director of the Office for the Arts and co-chairman of the search committee. The top candidates auditioned for the orchestra by planning and leading an HRO rehearsal. “[Collecting student feedback] was a very deliberate, thoughtful...