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…sities do, that the most important thing you can do as an administrator is recruit superstars to make your uni- versity great, then there is a consequence to all this. The students suf- fer. At first this seems an odd idea. How could a student be harmed by recruiting a superstar?...

…ate: Is UNRWA vital for the Palestinians' future? HOUSE OVERSIGHT 033528 Is UNRWA vital for the Palestinians' future? A great international hue and cry followed the Trump administration's announcement the U.S. would no longer fund the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) because it...

…formula. He went to see Arafat and secured — or thought he had secured — his agreement as well. One of the President’s great strengths was his genius for blurring the edges of potential differences in search of common ground. But when edges had to be sharpened, this could lead t...

…resident Assad, after the leak of the American draft from Shepherdstown: apparently ready to consider giving Arafat the great majority of the West Bank, without the slightest sign Arafat was ready for a full and final peace. But that wasn’t my main concern. It was that anything t...

…n, New York, 2004). S. Harris, Letter to a Christian nation. (Vintage Books, New York, 2006). C. Hitchens, God is not great: How religion poisons everything. (Hachette Book Group, New York, 2007). D. Mills, Atheist universe: The thinking person’s answer to Christian fundamenta...

…atami, was imprisoned after Iran's contested 2009 presidential election, he surprised his supporters by confessing with great gusto to being part of a Western-backed conspiracy to foment a velvet revolution. Although his confession was undoubtedly forced, his close associates cla...

…er much. There is some lip service about the subject but no one ever got hired at Yale as a professor because she was a great teacher who did no research. Here is a professor of computer science from a very highly ranked Big Ten university (he does not want his name mentioned):...

…e president, in addition to being aware of the hostility in New York, was making a conscious effort to be “part of this great house.” (But, acknowledging the difficulties inherent in his change of circumstances and of adapting to presidential lifestyle, she added, “How often will...

…ressors. To be sure, Elie Wiesel speaks up on behalf of his people as well, with a voice of unparalleled eloquence. A great Jewish sage once wrote, "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am for myself alone what am I? And if not now, when?" Elie Wiesel lives by t...

… you could offer them a job as a massage therapist or you could tell them you have a really rich friend with, you know, great contacts in the acting world or modeling world and he loves pretty girls, you should come back and meet him, make some money, you know, we had a whole bun...

… dent in the head; pregnant Kerry Washington ate for two; and the Janes— Fonda and Buffet—huddled on a couch, while The Great Gatsby’s production and costume designer, and wife of director Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin and I posed with her two Oscars. (Including the two she won...

…gram would have run to its end and given me the answer to Douglas Adams’ question. It would be very useful, and save a great deal of time, if I had a way of telling whether a program will ever stop. An elegant solution would be to have a second program called “Halt, which would...

…army in the early 1970s. Now, I discovered, Mookie himself had been on one of the training missions. “Their men aren’t great fighters, at least at night,” he said, an insight of obvious relevance to planning a commando attack, if we could get that far. When Ambar, the air force...

…not to press charges against the young man. I do not know how the engagement worked out, but I do know that I learned a great deal from this experience about the complexities of sexual encounters and the need to subject claims of rape to the usual probing of the adversarial proce...

… alternative version of world events— “perception versus reality,” says Epstein, “not to imply that one necessarily has greater weight than the other.” “Why,” I ask Weingarten, when Epstein briefly steps out of the room, “do so many people keep coming back here, everything consi...