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Lauren E. Baer ’02 is a social studies concentrator in Dunster House and former associate editorial chair of The Crimson. In her fourth and final semester as a columnist, she will tear herself away from the mincing claws of her thesis to continue to creatively investigate injustice at Harvard, in America and abroad. Her column, “Writes and Wrongs,” appears on alternate Wednesdays...
Ross G. Douthat ’02, a history and literature concentrator in Quincy House, is beginning his fourth (and sadly, final) semester as a Crimson columnist. He plans to continue writing about politics, culture and the virtues of alcohol, and hopes that he entertains as often as he offends. His column will appear on alternate Mondays...
...Even the conservative Daily Telegraph has qualms over Guantanamo. Columnist Alice Thomson agrees with shackling and even hooding and drugging the prisoners en route - "al Qaeda doesn't have a great reputation when it comes to aircraft. But I mind the shark cages, with their concrete floors open to the elements and the 24-hour halogen flood lights, left near mosquito-infested swamps, so the prisoners can catch malaria when some already have tuberculosis." She argues that this "vindictive" prison regime undermines the morality of what has been achieved in Afghanistan...
...Sending thank-you notes is becoming a lost art," mourns Mary Mitchell, a syndicated columnist known as "Ms. Demeanor" and author of six etiquette books. In her view, each generation, compared with the one before, is losing a sense of consideration for other people. "Without respect," she says, "you have conflict...
...London's Financial Times, the fact that the crisis had been visibly in the making for years acted to contain any international fallout. "Because the crisis has been predictable," wrote columnist Martin Wolf, "there may be minimal contagion to other borrowers." But Argentina's collapse will sway international thinking on currency convertibility and the debt levels that can be sustained by developing countries, and the role of the International Monetary Fund. "Senior officials at the Fund argue that the Fund is caught in a trap. If it refuses to support the government, it will be blamed for the chaos that...