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...waiting world: Dependent on political leanings, Capitol Hill or the World Bank beckon. Yet not unlike the bright-eyed bureaucrats sent to Iraq in order to engineer a new (democratic!) constitution, only a conviction in their own goodness prevents them from recognizing the elitism of their endeavor. What Harvardian narcissism defies, yet what the world needs, in place of enlightened leaders assigned to manage the world, is a reaffirmation of democratic ideals in their entirety...
...place of the anti-democratic kernel of the Harvardian ideal, then, we must shun leadership and commit to humility. We begin our revolution by admitting our incapacity to dictate “solutions” to anyone else and by asserting our willingness to really engage the realities of the oppressed. For what we enable, then, is democracy of a genuine sort. As the “best” represents always a subset of the general population, submission to the “best and the brightest” presupposes the annulment of properly democratic politics. Against this...
...ol’ U.S. of A. It’s Luxembourg. And it’s my motherland—in a non-Communist sort of way. Home to all of 480,222 people, this landlocked European wonder eludes the consciousness of the average American. So, in the great Harvardian spirit of enlightenment, here are 50 things you didn’t know about Luxembourg...
...space below. Jonathan K. Nguyen ’09 didn’t find this Polly Pocket setup very cute. “When I first saw the room, I was kinda like, ‘crap,’” said Nguyen. However, always the innovative Harvardian, Nguyen has moved the offending dressers to the next room over, while the space-saving hutch that started out on top of the 25% smaller desk is serving a better purpose as a bench. It’s now supporting his buttocks instead of his books, which is really what...
...reason and logic lofted Harvardian minds to new heights, the school decided to do away with antiquated methods of discipline. Edward Holyoke, class of 1690 and president from 1737-1769, ended the custom of flogging students. More importantly, Holyoke was instrumental in a movement towards valuing merit over social class, planting the seeds of an egalitarian tradition that the University would strive to expand throughout its history...