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That the IOP offers opportunities to undergraduates unparalleled anywhere in the world has become almost a cliché—and make no mistake, it is certainly a truism: that’s what drew us to the IOP in the first place. But the unfortunate reality is that a small minority of students gets the lion’s share of the benefits. Far too often the IOP becomes less a source of empowerment for students passionate about social change, and more an elitist fraternity for political junkies—a reality that profanes the Kennedy name...
...United Nations (UN) World Summit on the Information Society (with the obligatory acronym “WSIS”) ended. Nothing groundbreaking happened, but that’s simply to utter a truism of UN functions. The summit did, however, put on display yet more signs of animosity towards the U.S. In case you haven’t noticed, America’s standing in the world isn’t what it once was. Only two years ago the European Union was all-aboard in allowing the U.S. to continue “governing the Internet...
...meets Mother Mary meets James Bond hussy. I’ll clean my own room, do my own work, and make my own friends, thank you very much, and will probably save my own self while I’m at it. Because I also believe in another famous truism: bad boys will be bad boys. Victoria B. Ilyinsky ’07 is a romance languages and literatures concentrator in Leverett House. Her column appears on alternate Thursdays...
...socially and politically liberal. In many ways, that is still true. But changes in the political climate have a habit of creeping up on you, like a light breeze before a storm. And enough has happened - or, rather, become visible - in Europe this year to wonder whether that truism is still accurate. Last week, I heard one of Britain's most experienced commentators describe this year's Conservative Party conference as "young and sparky." The Tories, sparky? What happened to the comatose bunch of wrinklies with as much spark as a soggy book of matches? Of course, there were plenty...
...acknowledged that a Pope is not an "oracle" and "is infallible only in rare situations--"a truism, but fresh, given what critics called the papal triumphalism of his predecessor. Benedict also challenged a phenomenon in which John Paul often reveled--the explosion of priestly vocations in the developing world, which the new Pope said sometimes owes less to faith than to seminarians' quest for material gain and "social promotion" in their villages. If the global south is the church's future, he apparently plans...