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Though the event was billed by the Harvard Book Store as a reading from Ellsberg’s new memoir about the Pentagon Papers, Secrets, Ellsberg spoke at length about last week’s Congressional resolutions supporting military action in Iraq...
Mitchell cut a distinguished figure last Wednesday and Thursday perched behind the Thompson Room’s podium. One would think that a man with almost waist-length dreadlocks might feel out of place next to an imposing marble fireplace with its giant bust of John Harvard, but Mitchell owned the room. Drawing the audience in with his incredible public speaking skills, funny jokes and anecdotes about the motion picture industry, the critic even prompted one audience member to tell him, “Not only are you a beautiful speaker, but a beautiful man and a proud representative...
...right until you promise not to do what's wrong.'" While the expulsion of resident aliens who are deemed threats to public order is practiced in many European nations, critics say France is exceptional in basing deportation solely on the gravity of the crimes committed, without regard to the length of a convict's residency, family status or evidence of rehabilitation during imprisonment. Once deported, many former prisoners face rejection and scorn as "European criminals" in the countries to which they are sent, while enduring the heartache of separation from family and friends who may remain in France. Depression...
...goal date is always around Columbus Day, but the turning on is largely temperature driven. Once we get to 55 degrees for any length of time, we turn on the heat,” said Zak M. Gingo, manager of administrative operations...
...undergraduates is not a problem that often weighs on the mind of a Harvard president. It is heartening to see, then, that University President Lawrence H. Summers—who has invested much more heavily that his predecessor in winning undergraduates’ favor—spoke at length about life in the College at the Undergraduate Council meeting Sunday night. Measured on the scale of improving social life, however, one of the main changes discussed at the meeting—assigning all students in each Yard dorm to a specific House at the beginning of their first year?...