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An article in last Sunday’s Boston Globe revealed that less affluent communities in Massachusetts—including Springfield, Leominster, and Fitchburg—witnessed a marked increase in teen pregnancies in 2006, even as statewide, the same rate dropped two percent. Amid speculation about cultural causes and...
But the Dalai Lama has been smart enough to acknowledge China’s power; he repeatedly calls for coexistence of Han Chinese and Tibetans, respect for the upcoming Olympics, and true autonomy for Tibet through non-violence. He wants precisely what Hong Kong has. After all, Tibet has a...
First-year students spend the Wednesday night before spring break creeping from river House to river House, performing (drunken) rituals and hoping against hope to be placed in a house with hardwood floors (and cockroaches) instead of a shuttle schedule posted on its door. The next morning, they find out...
This determination to be completely empirical-as if he were a doctor of the mind pledged to examine things only as they are, to come up with a clear diagnosis and then to suggest a practical response-is one of the things that have made the current Dalai Lama such...
“I’d say generally cadets that join the program have a sense of civic responsibility,” second year cadet Josue V. Guerra ’10 says. “Part of it’s tradition, part of it’s...