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Barack Obama should keep Ball in mind as he mulls John McCain's suggestion of a joint visit to Iraq. Ball understood something important: that when you take a guided tour, your tour guide decides what you see. In Iraq today, as in Vietnam back then, the tour guides are America's officers and diplomats on the ground. And in Iraq, as in Vietnam, they have an incentive to show good news--which isn't always the same as the truth...
...Harvard of a half-century ago was still an ivory tower, complacent in its detachment from the world. This ceased being the case in the 1960s, although it wasn’t fully understood by President Nathan M. Pusey ’28, whose main complaint about the students who disrupted ideas and traditional order in the late 1960s was that they had execrable manners (so bad, indeed, that he called the police hours after their occupation of University Hall, when a little amount of empathy and patience would have avoided the tribulations and histrionics that followed). The University...
...many departments more heterogeneous (mine, in the 1950s and 1960s, was largely a group of political philosophers and historians; now there are two groups: the tribe of traditional humanists, and a new one of would-be scientists, who apply mathematical economic methods to subjects that can still best be understood by looking at history, anthropology, and psychology). Also, everyone is overworked in a country in which, unlike in France, no bill of rights recognizes each citizen’s entitlement to rest and leisure...
...Most significantly, Faust inaugurated the first comprehensive study of the arts at Harvard in over 50 years. “Our extraordinary strengths in the arts remain fragmented, less well-understood, less well-supported, and less integrated than their importance warrants,” she wrote in her charge to the task force, which is expected to issue a report in the fall...
...Democratic primary season, she offered narrative punctuation: a gray sweatshirt with a picture of a vehemently orange car screeching to a halt at a highway barrier and the words THE END OF THE ROAD. I am not sure that Hillary Clinton noticed the sweatshirt, but she immediately understood what the woman was about. "Will you be able to get me health care?" Dinock asked, eyes welling, then overflowing. "I've had seizures since I was a child. I work three jobs. I can't get health insurance." Clinton squeezed her arm and listened carefully, then reassured her that everyone would...