{"id":372,"date":"2003-08-24T16:40:36","date_gmt":"2003-08-24T20:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/08\/24\/forget-if-its-working-or-not-the-mode"},"modified":"2003-08-24T16:40:36","modified_gmt":"2003-08-24T20:40:36","slug":"forget-if-its-working-or-not-the-model-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/08\/24\/forget-if-its-working-or-not-the-model-is-good\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Forget if it&#8217;s working or not, the model is good.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a384'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or: how to get in deeper.  Interesting article in today&#8217;s <i><b>Toronto Star<\/i><\/b>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&amp;c=Article&amp;cid=1061676608528&amp;call_pageid=968332188492&amp;col=968705899037\">Why U.N. is a target; Tuesday&#8217;s bombing of civilian aid workers in Baghdad signals a dramatic escalation<\/a>, by Lynda Hurst.  Lots of detail and background.  She quotes Maurice Strong, a Canadian businessman who has in the past acted as a special for the U.N. Secretary-General: <i>&#8220;Iraq was not a terrorist threat before the war, Strong pointedly notes, <b>&#8216;but the U.S. has now made it a centre of terrorism. There&#8217;s the paradox.&#8217;<\/b>&#8220;<\/i>  Advisors in Washington, meanwhile, recommend committing more troops, according to &#8220;the model&#8221; of previous campaigns, viz. Afghanistan.  Makes you wonder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or: how to get in deeper. Interesting article in today&#8217;s Toronto Star, Why U.N. is a target; Tuesday&#8217;s bombing of civilian aid workers in Baghdad signals a dramatic escalation, by Lynda Hurst. Lots of detail and background. She quotes Maurice Strong, a Canadian businessman who has in the past acted as a special for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}