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Over the past month, the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) has revived a 30-year-old campaign to establish a women’s center at Harvard, and specifically at Hilles Library, which is currently awaiting drastic renovations. Our commitment to this project is largely fueled by pride in the almost-forgotten history of women at Harvard—and the now-complete loss of what was once the Radcliffe Quad as women’s space...
Some sort of recognition of public services by educational institutions lies at the basis of the raison dietre of all higher education. It is not until a university can in some such way establish a vital relationship with the community in which it exists that it will thrive. And the value of an academic degree is very little lessened by its award to a man whose achievements are not to be listed in the academic category. But as soon as such non-academic achievements are accepted on the standard of popular favor, the game becomes not diverting but ridiculous...
...between June 30 and the election of a legitimate national government promises to be even more complex than the first year of occupation has been. The primary responsibility of the caretaker government will be to organize national elections within seven months in a country wracked by violence, lacking in established political and legal infrastructure and plagued by power rivalries and mutual suspicion between its three main ethnic communities. The most immediate challenge, however, is resolving the obvious conflict that arises between the continuing freedom of action demanded by the U.S. military and the political authority of an Iraqi caretaker government...
...Today, U.N. peacekeepers still keep the two sides apart along a fortified "green line" that runs the width of the island, trimmed with sandbags and razor wire. The Annan plan is the most ambitious effort to find a solution so far: a 9,000-plus-page tome that would establish a Swiss-style "United Cyprus Republic" in which two constituent states are unified by a federal government but retain responsibility for their own daily affairs, from policing to tax collection. The plan is minutely detailed, providing the colors of a new flag and even the score of a new national...
This need to hire, combined with a desire to develop newer research in the area, pushed professors to establish microbiological research projects across departmental lines...