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...spite of all this, the intensity of debate among Harvard students on the very issues, which they are powerless to change, is high as can be. Henry Kissinger reportedly remarked that “university politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.” It is a comment that applies quite well to today’s Harvard, as I am sure it did to Kissinger?...
...year into the conflict in Iraq and have yet to pacify that country. The U.S. is divided at home and beleaguered abroad, and the continued fortitude of Americans on the ground in Iraq is all the more inspiring because the prospects of success seem to grow fainter in spite of their efforts...
...germ that keeps going about its business - a seeping, rotting parody of its once jubilant self. One complaint: although the entire book is in English, including the sound effects, it has been printed right to left; a pointless gimmick that adds nothing to the book except frustration. In spite of this, Junji Ito's "Gyo" should be your top choice for beachside reading this weekend. Just make sure to read it before lunch...
...international institutions like Harvard and its peers, regulations established in the name of national security have meant months of extra work for administrators. And in spite of these efforts, some say, barriers erected in the wake of Sept. 11 are turning away the world’s top scholars...
Still, the University isn’t in a position to rest on its laurels. In spite of receptivity at the highest levels of government, lower strata of the hierarchy—arms handling the day-to-day work of carrying out the Government’s new regulations, don’t seem to be lending so generous an ear, Casey says...