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...will also be allowed to select anyone in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as their advisor for Ad Board proceedings, according to former Undergraduate Council President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09. Sundquist was the only student member of the Administrative Board Review Committee.The new process will put less pressure on students to pick their resident deans as their advisors, committee members say, eliminating the deans’ “dual role” as advisor and the individual who takes their case to the Board.The current system creates a “conflict between the role...
...gather for this happy, spirited academic festival, Harvard needs the immediate commitment of everyone who has benefited from a Harvard education. So, to the thousands gathered today for Harvard Commencement, I say, “Come stand with us. Join the bucket brigade. Put something big in one of those three buckets, with no restrictions. Our students deserve it. Our President deserves it. And you, the graduates of this great university, deserve it as well. As we look around today, take note: we are all in this together...
...been at Harvard, the Student Labor Action Movement has been one of the least popular groups on campus. To be sure, the group is dedicated to an admirable goal—higher wages for Harvard’s lowest-paid employees. But the dogmatism with which SLAM activists put forward their arguments has turned off many lefties who would otherwise be sympathetic to their cause. After all, SLAM has managed to alienate me, and I spent last summer working at a labor law firm whose head partner supports repealing the Reagan tax cuts...
...that, despite what some CIA loyalists might reflexively think, would be great news for the agency. In fact, if I were Panetta, I would neatly gift wrap counterterrorism, put a bow on the top, and hand it over to FBI Director Robert Mueller. It can't be any clearer that renditions, harsh interrogations (if not torture) and secret prisons have been a catastrophe for the CIA, promising to tie it up legally for years to come, not to mention completely overshadow its successes. With the torture scandal sucking up all the oxygen, who today remembers that...
...rumor, I answered, adding I had no idea whether there was any truth to it. I'm certain the FBI agent took notes, but only to file them away. An FBI agent needs solid, actionable information - solid enough to arrest people, convict them in a court of law and put them behind bars. In this case, the FBI needed an address, a phone number, a license plate - anything to act on. On the other hand, the CIA is conditioned to steal anything that looks like a secret, even a suspect one, letting analysts in Washington sort out the truth from...