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That is why it may be time for the Dalai Lama to acknowledge that he has failed. For all his success in keeping the issue of Tibet on the world stage, this has not made and will not make one iota of difference to Beijing. His government-in-exile has always insisted on discussions about such matters as self-rule. Now it is time for one final, bold stroke: an announcement that the Dalai Lama is willing to return without any preconditions. Though Beijing has said it would accept him back on those terms, it is possible that the Chinese...
Forty-eight new seniors have been elected to the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha-Iota of Massachusetts. These students joined the 24 other members of the Class of 2009 who were elected last spring...
...ambivalent shroud of dust and ash in which mankind could glimpse a vision of its own destruction. To watch footage of the atomic tests—the grainy, bird’s-eye view of a seemingly endless geyser of particulate matter—is to understand an iota of a vengeful, earthbound god. To watch that same footage to the sounds of Ray Charles’ “What’d I Say” is something of a different experience.That’s what viewers get, among other things, in the 1962 film...
...hundred and sixty-two men and women from the graduating class of 2008 were joined by proud parents in Sanders Theatre yesterday to participate in the 218th Literary Exercises of Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha and Iota Chapter...
...natural sciences are women. “For the first time, I think, the women have achieved equality and some of those women were also in the natural sciences,” said James F. Coakley ’68, the secretary of Harvard’s chapter, Alpha Iota of Massachusetts. “Just as a fact, men have tended to dominate the Junior 24.” The inductees represent 17 different concentrations, with 9 concentrating in the social sciences, 8 in the humanities, and 7 in the natural sciences, according to Coakley...