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...Ever since Khatami's dramatic election victory in 1998, Western governments have grappled with how to deal with an Iran whose people were clearly signaling their preference for peace and engagement with the West while their ultimate overlords fought a vicious battle to retain control of a closed society. The Bush Administration clearly wants to reinforce the reformist trend, but at the same time remains concerned about the activities of the hard-line elements who are still effectively in charge - particularly their headlong rush to acquire weapons of mass destruction, and the missile technology to deliver those over great distances...
...enjoy some of the ideas of "2024." Rall is smart and intuitive in a vicious sort of way. His running gag of business minutiae as the new entertainment feels dead on. Likewise it's funny when Winston reacts to Channel 101 being "the worst thing in the world," with that meaningless, fully-corpratized hipster catchphrase, "That's cool." But the book lacks the central values of human decency which made it matter that Winston Smith of "1984" came to scrawl "2+2=5" into the dust of his cafe table...
...from the decades of their careers that normally go to the benefit of other universities. Small departments often do not have the manpower to expend the time needed to make senior appointments; while tenuring internal candidates does not increase the overall size of the Faculty, it will break this vicious cycle and shift the burden of the search process onto junior appointments, which are typically easier to conduct...
...soldiers usually die--because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was, as we understand it, a good war. We have known that ever since we learned about Nazi genocide. The greatness of the Greatest Generation derives from this: they stopped the most vicious killing machine in human history. But almost none of them, at the time, knew the full import of what they were doing. That came later, at war's end, when the death camps were liberated, and the ghastly pictures began appearing. Heroism, one thinks, must include self-, social and perhaps world consciousness...
...endemic shortage of courses created by such arbitrary restrictions has caused Core class sizes to balloon; it has also created a vicious cycle, as professors shy away from teaching new Cores or cross-listing their courses for fear that class size will suddenly explode. The eight-course requirement expects that each student will take, on average, one Core class per term; with an undergraduate enrollment of approximately 6,400 students, several of Harvard’s Core areas must expect an average of more than 100 students per class...