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Indeed, even Buchanan's legendary oratorical skills (admittedly superior to that of his questioners) could not completely hide his dark side at the ARCO Forum on Thursday. Buchanan stood squarely behind his remarks in praise of Hitler, his crack that Holocaust survivors have "group fantasies of martyrdom" and his support of Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk. As Neal Sher, the former director of the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations said, "Buchanan went to bat for every Nazi war criminal in America...
...such a large University, he says, it is virtually impossible to get everyone's support on a project of this size. He says he does support giving system users input in project decisions...
This discomfort has been evident in the recent debates about TECH, Harvard's proposed center for technological exploration. Proponents have likened TECH to the IOP; somewhere students can go to play around with bleeding edge technology, gain programming skills that they can't get in class, get support for Web ventures and learn from the best minds in the wired world. Opponents worry that TECH will become an assembly-line producer of little capitalists, encouraging the moneymaking impulse exactly when we students should be waxing Platonic...
...enterprise had no place at Harvard, multi-million dollar Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) would have been out of business a long time ago. HSA (and its for-profit subsidiary Let's Go) enjoys University support, wiring, direction and affiliation--and no one complains. What is so different about a technology center...
...going to be in desperate straits," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "In Germany, for example, there are currently three working people for every retired person, but that ratio may be as low as one to one by mid-century, which would seriously impair the economy's ability to support the elderly. And a decline in European economies could be accelerated by a tremendous brain drain." The destination? The U.S.A., whose relatively relaxed immigration policies have made it a magnet for the smart and productive elements from all over the world, who in turn have helped keep the U.S. economy...