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...speech. Others on campus preach the need for tolerance of speakers who put forward opposing viewpoints regardless of their extremity. Meanwhile, the administration plans to go forward with the speech as planned. Alhough this may sound like a description of former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami’s address at Harvard last September, it actually applies to the reception that former University President Lawrence H. Summers will likely receive tonight just up the road at Tufts University. When Summers’ appearance at Tufts was announced, professors and students cried foul, pointing to his infamous comments on women in science...
...policy. “Because you are not making it open to everybody, you’re more able to keep money for yourself,” Margaret M. Wang ’09, party fund director for the UC Finance Committee, said of the new DAPA grants. To address this potential problem, the DAPA program requires awardees to submit receipts before doling out grant money. And some parties were checked up on by DAPAs to ensure that funds were used properly, according to DAPA Katherine L. Sancken ’09, who dropped by an Irish pub party this...
...strikes me as unfair to punish Walter Reed's leaders for extending top-notch services longer than military hospitals have in the past. Hospital commander General George Weightman, who was fired, had begun to address outpatient issues even before they became public. But he and his colleagues failed to grasp the extent to which Walter Reed's responsibilities had grown from frontline medicine to hospitality, a job they were no more prepared for than Pentagon planners were for the long-term occupation of Iraq. The battle of the wounded will continue long after the fighting, their plight resonating with...
Kristof said that he had yet to decide what to discuss in his address, adding that his interests match those of the Kennedy School...
...report. The study says that poorly regulated mining practices are at the root of drastically increased sedimentation and mercury levels in the country’s waterways, which have led to public health crises among local communities. Docherty said the report is the first of its kind to comprehensively address the problems of small-scale mining in the often-overlooked South American nation. Entitled “All that Glitters: Gold Mining in Guyana,” the study documents the failure of Guyanese mining regulations to prevent human rights abuses and environmental devastation in the inner regions...