Jonathan S. Cohn

Where Idealism and Pragmatism Collide

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Robyn M. Minter speaks the language of idealism. When the Leverett House senior talks about campus race relations--the issue she

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"D ADDY, where were you the night before the war started?" Someday, my kids will ask me that question, just

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The comparisons were inevitable. As soon as President Bush ordered troops to the Persian Gulf this summer, some critics said

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I T WAS so simple last time around. When former President Ronald Reagan nominated Robert H. Bork to the Supreme

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I T'S NEAR DUSK as a lanky but ornery-looking bandit strolls into Dodge City. Peering through his bifocals, speaking prudently

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P RESIDENT Bush may be Washington's most notorious wimp, but these days it looks like the Democratic Party is the

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The Harvard Corporation has named six of its own members--along with three other officials--to a search committee aimed at finding

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No lasers, fireworks or fancy synthesizers. Just a bust of Beethoven and a piano--a real piano. "The problem with a

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I really didn't know what to expect when I came to Harvard Summer School in June, 1986. I knew it

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Invoking the spirit--but only some of the substance--of the Marshall Plan, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, speaking at Harvard Commencement