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...campus through meditation, discussion, and education. Alan G. Wagner, a 6th year graduate student in Chinese Buddhism and a board member of HBC, said that currently, the HBC does not have a strong influence within the undergraduate community. He described the meeting as an “open forum to talk about Buddhism and about what a Buddhist presence in the College might look like.” Adam S. Lobel, a second year graduate student at the Divinity School and a member of HBC, said that the meeting’s purpose was to find out what students wanted...
...former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister turned political prisoner told a packed John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last night that Islam and democracy are compatible ideologies. The charismatic Anwar Ibrahim criticized the “democracy deficit” of many Muslim nations, but also questioned the wisdom of spreading democracy “at the barrel of an M-16.” Noting that the moderate democracy of Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population, Ibrahim warned against identifying Islam solely with autocratic regimes like that of Saudi Arabia. Ibrahim, who is now a visiting professor...
Students and faculty members from the Harvard Medical School (HMS) hosted the first annual student forum on AIDS—entitled Action on AIDS: Providing Tools for Change—this past Friday and Saturday.Students from the Harvard Medical School AIDS Action Initiative (HMSAAI) and faculty members from the HMS Division of AIDS organized the event, which was held at the Tosteson Medical Education Center at HMS.Approximately 110 students, faculty members, health providers, and activists attended the forum. Students came from Columbia, Yale, Tufts, Northeastern, Boston University, and the University of Massachusetts, as well as from HMS, the Harvard School...
...Your forum of experts identifying trends that are most likely to affect the future, "The Road Ahead," was an absolutely enjoyable read. It was useful, entertaining and thoughtful. So much time is spent engaging in self-serving, narrow-minded posturing that purely intelligent thought and discussion are a lost art. Your panel offered a rare contribution of perspectives from people inclined to altruism rather than personal or political validation...
Nuclear terrorism is the major threat facing the United States, former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry said at the John F. Kennedy, Jr., Forum last night. Perry, who led the Department of Defense from 1994 to 1997 under former President Bill Clinton, said that a nightmare scenario in which terrorists could gain access to nuclear weapons and use them against an American city was “all too real.” “If they get them, they will use them and the results would be devastating,” he said to a crowd...