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...Sampson, currently on leave, has served as chair of the Sociology Department for two years. Like Faust, who has only been at the University since 2001, Sampson is a relative newcomer to Harvard. A scholar of crime and neighborhood effects, he spent most of his career teaching at the University of Chicago and was hired by Harvard...
...self-proclaimed hippie with a never-settled quest for religious understanding, Philip Clayton—a visiting professor this year at the Harvard Divinity School (HDS)—has spent the past year encouraging the exploration of the delicate balance between the study of science and the study of religion, an interest motivated in part by his own uncertainties of faith...
...annual Undergraduate Council (UC) presidential election approaches, well-rehearsed candidates—who, no doubt, have spent their entire college career preparing for this moment—circle campus, delivering platitudinous speeches about arcane bureaucratic details. All the while, the busybody pretend-politicians of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) and Harvard College Democrats issue tendentiously-phrased press releases on sundry college-related and national issues, hoping to impress future voters with their deft imitation of the duplicitous and evasive officials they aspire one day to replace...
...four years of leisure provided us by a college education should be spent fruitfully. We ought not fritter away our late adolescence and early adulthood, when our romantic sensibilities are acutest, in the tedium and drudgery of practical politics—whether manning activist brigades or scribbling position papers. We should be enjoying each other’s company without trying to win votes for a future election. We should be playing sports while we still have the time and energy unavailable in the future. We should be reading, writing, and thinking about the good life?...
...photographs of detained Iraqis suffering sexual humiliation at the hands of U.S. soldiers scrolls down a computer screen. "I felt a mouth close around my penis. It was only when they took the bag off my head that I saw it was my friend." In the nine months he spent in detention, al-Abbadi says he was never charged and never interrogated. On that awful November night, four months after his arrest, he thought he and six other prisoners were being punished for a petty scuffle...