Updated: 11/08/09 8:29 AM
There’s an old story about a Harvard professor who gets a call from the president (of the United States) and responds that his president is the president of Harvard.
Updated: 11/08/09 8:29 AM
A plate full of leftovers from a most delectable election:
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Iranian students were engaged last week in Round Two of their street-level struggle for reform. Round One took place last June, when young people protested the fixed reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Updated: 11/07/09 8:38 AM
We thought it meant the end of international contention. We thought it meant the nuclear menace was no more. We thought it meant Russia and America, the two powers of the future envisioned by de Tocqueville, could be friends. We thought it meant the end of espionage. We thought it might even be the end of history.
Updated: 11/08/09 8:29 AM
A few years ago, I mentioned to Dan Keck, a professor of educational administration and an amateur military historian, that my then father-in-law, Norman Kolbusz, was a chief petty officer on the USS Minneapolis.
Updated: 11/08/09 8:29 AM
In health care reform, what you don’t know can hurt you. Quality of care varies widely from provider to provider, and access to meaningful, objective information about those providers remains highly restricted in the United States. That may explain why U. S. health care results are the worst among all the world’s developed countries, according to multiple independent sources, including the World Health Organization.
