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...literature’s critics would do well to realize that literature is just as useful a means of gauging the social climate as any social science experiment. Only literary analysis can do what empirical analysis cannot: uncover what people are feeling and how they interact during a certain period in time. Rather than wielding literature’s formidable power of insight, however, academics are often too busy observing topics in the intellectual stratosphere. We are taught what words mean but not how to use them, and these concepts without meaning gradually fill our heads like sawdust. Ubiquitous buzzwords...
...blame everything on how the humanities are taught. The problems in classrooms and sections are most often perpetuated by students themselves, even if they are initiated by professors. Although it may be a failing on the part of our educators to force us to make our arguments within a certain rhetorical framework, we illustrate another failing entirely when we adhere to that framework for the sole purpose of impressing our professors. When section becomes a chance for us to show off rather than exchange ideas with our peers, we are at fault. The important thing at Harvard...
...VISION REVISITEDBut according to some, Lowell’s vision for Harvard housing is tainted by another legacy: discrimination toward gay, Jewish, and other minority students.The current Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck acknowledged that “in Lowell’s time there were certain kinds of exclusions that were part of the zeitgeist of the era.” As GSD students including Matt Storus approach the project, they say they worry that the current Houses are emblematic of this prejudiced period.“Harvard is facing in this move to Allston a branding crisis...
...Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo). But it is clear that the FARDC is becoming part of the problem, not part of the solution. It's clear the army is disintegrating. That's one of the big dilemmas for us. We came out to Congo with a certain function - to reinforce the authority of the state. But now the [U.N. Security] Council will have to reconsider this. Events of the last two months have just run over [our mission]. The Congolese army needs root and branch reform, but security-sector reform is a long-term project...
...That kind of language is almost certain to provoke a reaction from the Chinese government, which has escalated its criticism of the Dalai Lama in recent weeks...