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...Teaching a Diplomat Diplomacy I was shocked and somewhat antagonized by John Bolton's answers to some of the questions readers asked [Nov. 26]. In particular, I was alarmed by his lack of support for diplomacy in delicate situations like dealing with Iran. He also revealed arrogance and pomposity when referring to the U.N. as "a useful instrument of American foreign policy." Bolton must be blind and deaf if he thinks that anti-Americanism isn't sweeping the world. If he wants to see real change in the way America is viewed and practical solutions to global tension, he should...
While the Web site has used local political debates to open the Web polls for particular schools, the site’s questions become user-generated following sufficient use by students...
...logo on their ubiquitous fleeces at the mere mention of the word “camping,” I suffered from intense flashbacks of living in a teepee in the middle of the New Mexican desert with my bizarre family every summer of my childhood. But that particular sordid fact from my past, as well as pretty much everything else about me, I firmly intended to shove into the background so that my new persona as a normal, Gore-Tex-loving co-ed could take center stage. All it was going to take, I decided, was a little imagination...
...ranked—from hospitals to high schools. With respect to college rankings at least, which we are best positioned to judge, the rankings do far more harm than good. Any system of shorthand that tries to generalize the individual match between students and colleges—particularly through rankings—will fall flat. The qualities of a college include far more than statistics about retention rates, average SAT scores, and faculty-to-student ratios. The U.S. News ranking in particular encourages bad choices and an unhealthy focus on prestige and elitism. If the list is useful for anything...
...This particular trial was for abuse of authority for illegally ordering the search and seizure of the home of his former security chief, Vladimiro Montesinos. On Tuesday evening, he was found guilty and sentenced to six years in prison on the charges, the first Peruvian president in history to suffer such humiliation. In contrast to his earlier belligerence, Fujimori calmly told the court that he would appeal the verdict, a very different response from the arm-failing, red-faced tirade of the previous...