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...called "witnesses" were asked to testify as to what they believed, thought or speculated, not what they knew, and their often partisan answers did more to obscure than to inform. During the debate on the first article of "impeachment," the "managers" on each side were poorly prepared to present their cases; the surprising ignorance of many council members concerning the most basic facts made the procedure resemble the blind leading the blind...
None of the three Election Commission members present at the meeting said they believed Burton had lied to the commission...
...debate over Burton's removal was initially slated to include five minutes for each side to present its case and 10 minutes for the council to ask questions of the case managers...
This is the sort of news that will depress Kwabena L. Blankson '01. Blankson is petitioning for History 1907, "West Africa from 1800 to the Present," to count for Historical Studies B credit. He writes, "I realize that many courses have been petitioned without success but I feel that my reasons...are quite compelling," and then recounts how no course on Africa is currently available in either Foreign Cultures or Historical Studies. "If the purpose of the Core is to 'broadly educate every Harvard graduate,'" Blankson writes, "not having an African history course of any sort denies students the opportunity...
History dominates Wiesel's memoirs. When he speaks of the present or the future, the Tragedy is his spoken or unspoken backdrop. When he describes his travels and meetings on behalf of victims, of Jews and of memory, the backdrop and players are the events and names of tomorrow's history books. The list of Wiesel's acquaintances is impressive--United States presidents and Israeli prime ministers, other Nobel laureates, Francois Mitterrand, Mikhail S. Gorbachev and many others. Wiesel does not attempt to recount the history of the past 30 years, but he calls on it. He provides his reactions...