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...called me last spring and convinced me to come to Harvard,” says freshman Diana C. Robles ’10. “Her recruiting methods have made my first few months so amazing.” Because costs of travel and language barriers might prevent the parents of some Latino students from coming to Cambridge, Urzua established the first ever holiday dinner in Los Angeles last December to “bring Harvard to them.” And Urzua isn’t just interested in off-campus Latino issues: in the past four years...
...offers students with moral objections to abortion a refund for the portion of term-bill fees that funds elective abortions—but the refund will not be extended to the funding of Plan B, Gharib wrote. Plan B does not abort embryos implanted in the uterus but rather prevents ovulation and possibly fertilization and implantation, according to the Food and Drug Administration’s Web site. President of Harvard Right to Life (HRL) Mary E. Collins ’08 said her organization was ambivalent about the drug’s availability. “At this point...
...protect the safety of both students and subjects.This past summer, Krister B. Anderson ’07 did research in Morocco on the repression of the country’s largest Islamic group. Before approving his research application, the committee made sure that he went to great lengths to prevent the people he was interviewing from potentially dangerous consequences from the government.“My proposal definitely received more scrutiny and took more time to be reviewed than I expected,” he said. “In the end, I was not allowed to record conversations...
Here again, the Vietnam parallel may be relevant. Defeat in Vietnam did not prevent the U.S. from maintaining close cooperative relationships with other regional countries, including Japan, South Korea and the Philippines. Nor did it stop the U.S. from forging sometimes productive ties with Vietnam's backers (including China and what was then the Soviet Union) or, with the passage of time, with Vietnam itself. Today Asia is the most dynamic part of the world, and the U.S. is a central participant in that dynamism...
...They've already made one set of mistakes," he says. "They should come forward and say 'We haven't gotten out on the right foot, we should have had a person out front, our hearts go out to those who are ill.' If you've taken every step to prevent a crisis and to communicate it, the public is much more forgiving than...