Word: citizenship
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Derek Bok purportedly also danced around this issue of citizenship and Harvard at a talk he gave shortly before stepping down as President of the University, saying he would prefer to leave that question to his successor. Why are administrators wary of committing themselves publicly to the principle that Harvard College should aim to make its students good citizens, and if it is not accomplishing that goal, then ought something to change...
...reasons is that there is little consensus today as to what the definition of good citizenship is, or whether college is the place to figure it out. Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes said to me, "When I went to college, I felt privileged. I expected to be changed, and they expected to change me. That was the deal, and the whole culture went along with that deal." "The notion of in loco parentis," he said, "was absolute. College was supposed to finish the job my parents had started...
...double presidency" continues. PresidentWilson has written her annual letter tofirst-years, and tours for prospective studentscontinue to tout the "dual citizenship" enjoyed byfemale undergraduates. Wilson and Rudenstinepressed the flesh at the First-Year Barbecue thisweekend...
...Saudis stripped him of his citizenship, and Sudan, under U.S. pressure, forced him to leave his base there. But the Taliban, the Islamist rulers of most of Afghanistan, have not cracked down on him. In July the head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al Faisal, flew to Kandahar and asked the black-turbaned Taliban leaders to keep bin Laden quiet. After the prince left, Mullah Mohammed Omar, the cleric who founded the Taliban movement, had a chat with bin Laden. "We told him," the mullah told TIME, "that as a guest he shouldn't involve himself in activities that create...
...weekend before the taping, I decided not to study up, or even brood very much. After a lifetime of normal U.S. citizenship, if I did not know my feelings on this matter, too bad for me. My fellow panelists--Cynthia Tucker, Elaine Chao, Sherman Alexie, Clarence Page, Richard Rodriguez, Kay James and Roberto Suro--clearly had decided the same thing. Jim Lehrer, our moderator, encouraged us to let our feelings rise to the occasion...