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...personally do feel called to serve, and I want that service to be productive. I want to do that work in a partnership. I don’t want to simply make a lot of money and have some organization spend it well on my behalf.” Certainly, there are selfish graduates who feel no obligation to develop or sustain a social consciousness at all, though few would ever admit it. But they are undoubtedly the exception; regardless of career choices, good intentions abound, though their value remains to be seen. If anything, the varied and often uxexpected...
...corrosive effect of widespread corruption in Iraq. "One consistent element in these allegations is that you believe your foremost mission is to support the Bush Administration, especially with respect to Iraq and Afghanistan, rather than act as an independent and objective check on waste, fraud and abuse on behalf of U.S. taxpayers," said Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which has an ongoing investigation. In response, Krongard issued a statement, claiming, "The allegations, as described to me and in certain media reports, are replete with inaccuracies including those made by persons with their...
...decade before the 1978 curricular review. None of them serve on visiting committees, have children at Harvard, or live in or near Boston. I am not implying that members of the Corporation are not knowledgeable about the issues facing Harvard, but it is hard to deny that acting on behalf of the University without having any direct connection to the issues or people in the community is a problematic task...
...equality of conditions, the existence of a governing class at once turns problematic. If a group of people is to rule by representative government, inequality becomes necessity. Even with the universal franchise, the selection of representatives dictates that some will be deciders and some will be those on whose behalf the decisions are made. Representation demands that a group of peers ennoble one of themselves, and dominate others of their own rank and file...
...lucky to be in the know. Most of us are not, and, worse, most of us couldn’t care less. To imagine a few members of Harvard’s political elite acting on the behalf of thousands of students who suffer from a poverty of interest is worrisome at best and aristocratic at worst...