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...wisdom. While Laura Bush condemned the Burmese junta, the Obama Administration has held relatively high-level talks with the country's leadership - in March, Stephen Blake, the State Department's director of Southeast Asian affairs, met Foreign Minister Nyan Win in Naypyidaw. Condoleezza Rice would skip ASEAN's Regional Forum, and the Bush Administration refused to sign ASEAN's Treaty of Amity and Cooperation. The treaty is pretty innocuous - it merely pledges signatories to uphold a zone of peace in Southeast Asia. But the Bush Administration objected to Burma's membership in ASEAN and was averse to signing anything (remember...
...Still, it is neither serious nor intellectually honest to point out problems with the proposed cuts without providing alternatives. In fact, when FAS administrators presented their plans at a public forum in Quincy House, they seemed to invite—albeit with a hint of defensiveness—suggestions about other cuts, an invitation that came after a student asked why top administrators are not taking pay reductions...
...best ideas. Its website asks the MIT community to post suggestions to the “Idea Bank” and allows others to view these responses and rate the ones they find “particularly innovative and practicable.” Harvard should offer a similar forum to encourage the most creative, realistic, and responsible solutions possible...
...given adequate time and a forum for feedback, we do not doubt that the Harvard community could generate less expensive and even safer solutions to the dangers posed by the nighttime commute to the Quad. But to make cuts to an already imperfect shuttle system without having first established a safe alternative is beyond irresponsible. It is a reckless decision that will cut financial costs at the expense of student safety, and this is not a deal that anyone should be willing to accept...
...crazy to ban paintballing. It's an extreme sport, but it's absolutely harmless," says Lars Herzig, spokesman for the Forum for Paintball Sport. "Several courts have already ruled that paintballing doesn't simulate killing, so the politicians are on the wrong track. Why don't they ban boxing as well?" (See pictures of boxing in Thailand...