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...necessarily because of the courses' competitive nature, but more accurately because of the lack of resources allotted to the department. More devastating than the University's maldistribution of money and space, however, is the underlying sentiment among undergraduates that VES does not fit in with the Harvard academic model. Harvard ignorantly writes off VES classes as flaky, insignificant guts, VES concentrators as angst-ridden, black-clad and pretentious bohemians and VES degrees as a wasted education...
...model of a diseased strawberry has acquired a white glaze, McCloud said...
Program leaders say HOP functions more like a bank than a traditional service group, based on a model of social enterprise...
Many felt that Harvard needed a strong, outspoken leader, someone qualified, flexible, innovative and maybe even brash--someone who represented the change universities were undergoing. The Crimson reported that the search committee's model for the new president was Kingman Brewster, 51, then president of Yale. Once a professor at Harvard Law School, Brewster was everything a president needed to be: charming, outspoken, diplomatic and committed to academics...
Until now. With Israel's myriad concessions, unilateral withdrawals, pleas for peace and general demoralization, the euphoria has returned. Israel's enemies sense weakness. The disorganized withdrawal from Lebanon has become the model. If the Israelis could be driven out of Lebanon, reason the Palestinians, we can drive them out of Palestine. The Palestinians see an Israel with no stomach for losses; an Israel crossing previously sacred redlines without getting anything in return; an Israel prepared to surrender sovereignty over Judaism's holiest shrine; an Israel bending to every U.S. pressure to keep giving with no reciprocity...