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...With the Task Force on General Education’s proposed Reason and Faith requirement, the administration has commendably recognized the importance that religion has played—and will long continue to play—in our society. We believe understanding the interaction between reason and faith is one of the cornerstones of a liberal arts education. Yet, the report also acknowledges that we live in a global world. It is a world where Harvard brooks more skeptics than elsewhere, where globalization’s spread of ideas has not made the world at large less unctuous?...
...Professor of Economics.” To this day, the only comment the public has heard from Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles on the case is that he has taken “appropriate action.” Many have taken Knowles to task for the lack of transparency in handling this case. While we do not share the view that Knowles has an obligation to air the Shleifer affair publicly, we are concerned that Knowles did not adequately consult the Committee on Professional Conduct (CPC), which traditionally oversees matters such as these. We do not find...
...Community Initiatives. The office had opened in the West Wing in 2001 to support the President's campaign promise of $8 billion a year in new funding for both religious and secular charities that helped the poor. That money never materialized, however, and I was increasingly stuck with the task of explaining to religious groups why the White House was so bad at helping them do good. This meeting, with a group of prominent African-American pastors who had supported Bush's plan, promised to be no different...
...State Department’s Office of Egypt and the Levant, whose purview includes Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. In Washington, D.C. at the time of the conference, she spoke with students and faculty using telecommunications equipment recently acquired by the IOP. Abercrombie-Winstanley, who headed the U.S. task force in Lebanon this past summer, spoke positively of U.S. involvement. She praised the State Department’s quick evacuation of American citizens, as well as its financial contribution in rebuilding Lebanon. She said that of the $900 million in total international aid, the U.S. has contributed $230 million...
...Pentagon and the IAEA both devote considerable resources to the task of identifying the source of any bomb that is tested. Still, tracking the source of nuclear material is a complex, difficult endeavor--one that is hardly guaranteed success. To this day, there are questions about the origins of the material that Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan sold to Libya. Among the material that Libya turned over after it abandoned its program was a precursor to highly enriched uranium--uranium hexafluoride. U.S. intelligence agencies believed it came from North Korea but spent months trying to prove it. They still haven...