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...again.Eventually, however, that reputation can become divorced from reality. We Harvardians love to think that our inordinate success with “b” depends mainly on our own skills. We are the ones who scored 1600 on our SATs or mastered the oboe underwater. We ascribe our progress towards the United States Congress or the presidency of Citigroup as a reflection of our merit; we view our achievements as a statement that we belong among our forefathers, such as John F. Kennedy ’40, John Updike ’54, or Senator Al Gore...
...Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) reported on progress in making coursepacks less expensive, agreed to attempt to allow current freshmen to enroll directly into new life science concentrations, and considered ways to preserve the anonymity of students who fill out CUE evaluations in its monthly meeting on Friday. Members of the committee said that in response to an Undergraduate Council (UC) position paper presented in February, the staff of the Core Office, library liaisons, and graduate students in each department will now work with professors to make better use of electronic resources. In the past, students have paid twice...
...women and the environment,” she said. Protecting the “environment is about providing a clean and healthy environment to Iraqi people, not about protecting some endangered species or stopping some elephant from being killed,” she clarified. She also spoke about the progress made by women since the downfall of the Hussein government. According to Al-Moumin, under the Hussein regime, “the Iraqi woman did not get the chance to be treated like a citizen.” To rectify this injustice, she recommended more female participation in the higher...
...United States is certainly right to condemn Iran for its progress in enriching uranium. Undeniably, nuclear proliferation, regardless of which country promotes it, destabilizes the world and increases the likelihood of mass destruction and death of the kind witnessed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, it is difficult to conceive how the U.S. government can justifiably berate Iran without any qualifications. Not only does the perennial complaint that the nuclear-armed US should lower its own nuclear stockpiles remain valid, but the Bush Administration has provided Iran with even more reasons to acquire nuclear weapons capability in the short term...
...reopened. "This particular race is going to determine what's going to happen to New Orleans," she said. The fact that her neighbors didn't return to vote in large numbers is ominous to Pinsonat. "A lot of people have been watching," he said, "and don't see much progress, or hope...