President George W. Bush awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist and Nobel Laureate Gary S. Becker Monday, Nov. 5, 2007, in the East Room. “His pioneering analysis of the interaction between economics and such diverse topics as education, demography, and family organization has earned him worldwide respect and a Nobel Prize,” said the President.
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John Kerry once quipped, “You know, education—if you make the most of it—you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
But perhaps we should amend that to “if you get educated, you serve in Iraq.”
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Withdrawal cannot serve America’s interests
on the day after tomorrow. Friends and foes alike will ask: if this superpower doesn’t care about the world’s central and most dangerous stage—what will it care about?
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Jack Goldsmith, a member of the Hoover Institution’s Task Force on National Security and Law, was formerly chief of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. His new book,
The Terror Presidency, bears more on the proper sources of presidential power than on the substance of the powers the president should have. (Photo: Stanford Visual Arts Services) |
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When is a warrant necessary for a wiretap?
Some members of Congress have refused to pass a law to permit foreign intercepts unless the law included near-perfect privacy guarantees for every innocent American.
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How to disentangle the Gordian knot tied by NCLB and its reformers?
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The liberal arts make us “competitive” in the ways that matter most.
They make us wise, thoughtful, and appropriately humble. They help our human potential to bloom. And they are the foundation for a democratic civic polity, where each of us bears equal rights and responsibilities.
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We know reducing sunlight would work to cool the earth because it happens naturally all the time—thanks to volcanoes and clouds.
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Che was a hard-driven, messianic character in a culture that has long urged people to line up behind paternalistic leaders who promise to redeem the downtrodden. In real life, Che failed in almost everything he did.
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Vladimir Putin’s self-righteousness has gone down well with most
Russians. They feel that Gorbachev and Yeltsin yielded too much and too often to foreign powers and, moreover, that Yeltsin embarrassed them.
The point for most Russians is that Putin is not merely a patriot but a brutally effective patriot. Future generations, however, may well judge him more harshly.
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There is frustratingly little the West can do for Burma. Burma’s
neighbors, however, could do much.
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Bueno de Mesquita has made a slew of uncannily accurate predictions—more than 2,000, on subjects ranging from the terrorist threat to America to the peace process in Northern Ireland.
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Boskin: “The virtual economy is a very real phenomenon. It happens to be in the virtual world, but it’s a real phenomenon. Millions of people are spending their valuable time and using their skill to inhabit these places. That is economically fascinating on many dimensions. ”
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Those in the field of fire believe not just that we can win. They believe we are giving millions of people a chance at a different way of life.
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The famine of 1931–34 was a major humanitarian catastrophe, claiming almost 6 million victims, as many lives as were lost in the Holocaust.
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Boris Pasternak, photographed by Aleksandr Less in Moscow in
1946, was already a celebrated poet when his magnum opus,
Doctor Zhivago, was completed in 1955. Smuggled abroad, it was first published in 1957 in an Italian translation. It would be 30
more years before its publication was allowed in the Soviet Union.
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