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Activists and friends of the undocumented student said that Balderas was allegedly detained when he tried to use his Harvard identification to board a plane from his hometown of San Antonio, Texas to Boston, the AP reported...
...looking forward to learning from and contributing to the rigorous academic life at Harvard and to collaborating with some of the leading scholars of Islam and religion," Zeghal wrote. "I am eager to work with the students interested in Islam and politics and to use the extraordinary resources offered by Harvard...
Excerpt: “Congress did not intend for small community groups to use the environmental review process to avoid compromising with the majority to block a project. Nor were environmental laws passed so that a rival corporation and a hastily-formed community group could attempt to stop some non-profit hospitals from creating their own clean, cheap power. But because of the changes in the review process the intent of these laws has been perverted. They can now be used not only to stop environmentally damaging projects but to halt or at least delay any project, no matter...
...Week schedule reflects a tension internal to the Commencement process. On one hand, many of the Commencement speakers will talk about the tremendous capacity that the class of 2010 has to serve our communities, our country, and the world. We will be praised for our strengths and encouraged to use our gifts to improve society and humanity. At the same time, most of the class of 2010 already have their plans for next year locked up. If the past is any indication, many Harvard seniors will be taking competitive, individualistic, and personally rewarding jobs next year. And how many seniors...
...with two minds”—the balanced influence of people who can be, as he put it, “practitioners one month and then academic observers of themselves the next.” “The ability to create knowledge and put it to use is the adaptive characteristic of humans,” Professor Louis Menand has observed. “It is…how we change—how we keep our feet on the ground and our heads in the clouds...