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...sure that our students should be dispersed among three different centers, which is what they’d be if some new undergraduate Houses were built in Allston and we maintained the Quad,” says Knowles. “I hope we can have just two main loci for the undergraduate Houses, wherever those...
This consensus is not a “Cambridge effect”; we do not suffer from the delusions of being thousands of miles away from the loci of conflict. Even in Israel and Palestine—where excuses to make war abound on both sides—the vast majority of people is still in favor of compromise and peace. In spite of decades of dehumanization and state terror, the Palestinian people want to go back to the negotiating table. And in spite of all of those horrific suicide bombings, polls have shown that most Israelis still want...
...bomb threats and evacuations rippled through everyday populus loci like Pennsylvania Station and Time Square on Wednesday night and salarymens? midtown spires in a freshly repopulated midtown on Thursday, New Yorkers, at least, are getting a look at Phase...
...nice affairs at the Capitol. They seemed grand at the time, but of course the presidential inauguration dwarfed the Texas ones. It wasn't just the crowds and all the hoopla and the metal detectors and the legions of tense security forces. It was the complexity of all the loci of power represented on the podium. It seemed impossible that anyone's ear could be tuned to so much dissonance, much less, I have to admit, someone you were used to seeing at the parent-teacher night at the local high school...
...mistaken assumption that the Houses as Houses are still valuable. Living in one place for three years, eating in the same dining hall and checking mail in the same place may help encourage community, but it has not done so. Harvard students look to classes and activities as loci for community and to the Houses as places where they sleep in a large building filled with total strangers. Once, communities were linked by at least a four-in-12 sort of preference; now, living together in a House is a coincidence less instructive than matching section times. What would...