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Scene: Miami, Florida. My family and I are sitting around the dining table for Christmas dinner. My grandparents don’t get to see me that often, so when they do, they tend to assume the role of life-coaches: famous one-liners include “go straight to law school,” “don’t do drugs,” “go to church” and “here’s some money for your coffee...
With so few FTEs and opportunities for advancement, WGS is hamstrung to recruit and retain distinguished professors—and in turn to attract concentrators. “Harvard students tend to seek out big-name professors and frequently consider their scholarly celebrity status a significant draw, and WGS needs to have proper resources and funding to bring such distinguished academics to the committee, and more important, to keep them there,” said Tracy E. Nowski ’07, currently the only full WGS sophomore concentrator. According to WGS Assistant Director Kathleen Coll, there are only...
...restrictions seem to generate so much controversy because of a seemingly impossible reconciliation of two lofty ideals: the creation and maintenance of a definable House community through a dining hall, and the integration of first-years into upperclass life. Those who believe that the former concept is more important tend to support Houses’ dining hall restrictions, and those who believe the latter concept prevails tend to oppose them. It is difficult to deem one principle to be higher than the other, but when we empirically examine what happens to dining halls when there are no interHouse restrictions?...
...government seem eager to acknowledge this massive suburban undertaking. Over the past two months, three municipal departments declined to comment on the project, a curious silence in a city that is usually keen to burnish its international reputation with its latest, hippest urban scheme. Local papers, which tend to give property developments breathless coverage, have also been remarkably muted in recent months. Ironically, the developers of those foreign-styled suburbs that are already finished report high sales rates for what are, after all, some of Shanghai's most comfortable neighborhoods, even if some of them feel as charmless and inauthentic...
...Nepalis who switched on their television sets found cultural shows and patriotic songs. At 10 a.m., King Gyanendra appeared, flanked by the Nepalese flag and his own royal standard, and announced his "historic decision," declaring: "Nepal's bitter experiences over the past few years tend to show that democracy and progress contradict one another ... In pursuit of liberalism, we should never overlook an important aspect of our conduct, namely discipline." As he spoke, telephone lines and Internet connections across Nepal went dead. The airport closed. Armored cars and soldiers with riot shields began patrolling Kathmandu's narrow alleys...