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Medvedev likes to quote another historian, Jules Michelet, who defined his profession as "the action of bringing things back to life." Scarcely anyone does that better than Medvedev. All existing portraits of Stalin, even one drawn by a great novelist like Alexander Solzhenitsyn, seem bland in comparison with the real...
Third, there has been a widespread implication that people choose to participate in ROTC only for financial reasons. This is simply untrue. While ROTC scholarships are certainly an important avenue for students from from lower- and middle-income families, the desire to serve one's country comes before the need...
Then there is the agenda-setting Hollywood elite and its preoccupation with national affairs. Ronald Brownstein, who is writing a book about Hollywood and politics, says most political money for Democrats comes from California and about two-thirds of that bankroll comes from Los Angeles. "Stars, though, don't want...
...prepare students for responsible jobs in their profession. No curriculum ever achieves this aim in full--education is too imperfect a process for that--and many faculties are further from the goal than their presidents would like to admit. But it is particularly unlikely that a young professional school embarked on an ambitious new strategy will manage in two decades to build a truly satisfactory curriculum. For this is a process that can only take place through a gradual accumulation of knowledge and experimentation extending over a long period of time...
If Harvard is so anti-military, then why does it honor those who died in combat with such monuments as Memorial Hall and Memorial Church? Military service is an honorable profession, and I have faith that the students and faculty at Harvard have only the utmost respect for our armed...