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or to the real world operation of the Harvard program as it probably works in practice. The following description certainly implies that race is not treated differently from other elements of diversity:

“In practice you can do a lot to implement human rights in this generation but in teaching you can both help this generation and help plant the seeds for progress later on.”

neutral standard of human rights? Have human rights now become the permanent weapon of choice for those who practice human wrongs? For shame. For shame.

if the body’s failure to stop suffering was not so serious and not so real. The UN could have intervened more quickly and vigorously and saved millions of lives in Cambodia

…a few minutes with us and then invited me to his private office for a confidential meeting. He explained that this was one of the most secure locations in the world and that anything I told him would never leave the room. He then said

and I can only disclose incidents that occurred in public. Here’s one that shows how she earned her title. We were having breakfast in the dining room of her hotel

one must only imagine how it might have been without a Wiesel. It is impossible to imagine the rage that must be continually experienced by direct and indirect survivors of the Holocaust. Other victims have responded by non-peaceful means—for example

truth was not a defense to defamation because a “truthful defamation was deemed more harmful than a false one.” See Alan Dershowitz

although one with possible legal defenses of necessity (choice of evils) and justification (killing to protect her son). That case is pending as I write these words.

one of its members argued forcefully that attempts to reverse the sequence and have the president elected first (as some have suggested would be preferable because parliamentary elections will be much more complicated than presidential elections) might simply deliver another dict...

covering the 9/11 attacks and the election of President Obama. He writes regularly for the Radio Times and reviews books for the Sunday Times.

…olicy vision. This lack of an international agenda is why the president may be called a pragmatist, but not a realist. One result of all this is that his administration’s foreign-policy choices often appear substantially driven by political expediency— and particularly a desire...

…age we had was that they would have no idea what had happened on Rue Verdun, who we were, or where we were going. No sooner had we joined the Corniche than I saw another police Land Rover about 200 yards ahead of us. This one had a spotlight on the roof, panning both sides of th...

…y pocket since | didn't like to wear it on my wrist, and without saying a word | placed it on the bureau. Lenny laughed one loud staccato “Ha” and kissed me on the forehead. We developed a friendship integrated with stand-up comedy. In_ his act Lenny had broken through tradition...

…ia in the market. With real yields at -30bp, the fixed income market is pricing in pessimism on Trump (and as I’ve mentioned, our colleagues in fixed income/FX and their clients have been quite a bit more bearish than those in equities.) ° Believes there is fear of stagflation i...