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...problem of religious literacy is so great that it is oftentimes not even recognized. Ask yourself: How many Harvard students can explain the difference between a Shiite and a Sunni? How many understand why most Americans reject Darwinian evolution? Probably—and sadly—not many. But this sort of knowledge is essential to understand today’s world. Religion is not, as Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker wrote, an “American anachronism.” If anything, it is Harvard that needs explaining in our persistently religious global society...
...wrote in an e-mail. Rosenfeld, herself a former Lowell resident, is currently taking a semester abroad in Argentina, but felt strongly enough about the cause contra cockroaches to write a letter to The Crimson in late September decrying the College’s handling of the pest problem. E-mailing from an Argentinean hostel on Sunday, she said that the frustration—and the sting—of her cockroach encounters had not been dulled by distance. “From the innumerable encounters that I have had, a deep phobia has grown,” she wrote...
...respect those opinions and believe that ultimately we are all fighting for the same thing: better conditions and a better quality of life. It must be understood, however, that the responsibility for correcting those conditions lies with the Charlesview board of directors. This is not Harvard’s problem to resolve...
Russia's stated objective in the six-party talks is to bring North Korea back to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Although mindful of the need to keep talking to Pyongyang in search of "options of reaching a compromise solution to the nuclear problem on the Korean peninsula" - to quote the Russian delegation chief, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alekseyev - Moscow has publicly chastised its unruly Cold War ally. Last October, the Russian Foreign Ministry referred to North Korean underground nuclear tests as a disregard "of the will of the world community, interested in non-nuclear status of the Korean peninsular...
...would like to see it make a comeback, but I don’t know if it will,” Djuric said. “The problem is no one ever built an institution where it would continue well beyond the founders...