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...recent criticism of Harvard Management Company’s (HMC) indirect holdings in companies doing business with the Sudanese government is misinformed and is energy wasted by the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG) and The Crimson. Not only do the groups’ allegations fail to understand the possible investment choices given the HMC, but they do not even account for the actual holdings in Harvard’s endowment. The allegations only serve to demonstrate a lack of understanding of financial instruments, unnecessarily tarnish the University’s name, and keep the HMC from doing its job. First...
...students as to whether or not the current Japanese government should apologize to China for crimes committed during World War II (WWII). Those crimes were horrible, and the utterly despicable behavior of all the Axis powers during World War II is something that people in Japan and everywhere must understand and appreciate. Nevertheless, I do not believe it to be the place of the current Japanese government to either grant or withhold apology for events that took place so long...
...professional historian, I always emphasize to my students that we study history in order to understand people–that we may use that understanding to make a better world by repeating courses of action which historically have resulted in good effects, and taking measures to avoid those that have resulted in tragedy. We do not study history in order to blame contemporary people for the actions of others who lived in the past. This not only constitutes an inappropriate and unprofessional use of history as an academic discipline, but furthermore violates the basic precept of human justice that...
People in Japan and everywhere need to understand what really happened during WWII, that the world may take measures to assure that such events never happen again. As such, Japan (and every other country) needs textbooks that portray the events of the WWII period accurately, as well as a frank and open dialog about the horrors of WWII both among academics, and between academics and the general public. But the current government of Japan represents a constituency in which the majority of individuals were not of adult age during the Second World War. As such, although it is their duty...
Given the recent instances of outsiders sneaking into Harvard houses, I can understand this particular student’s concern and her decision to call the police on me. I have to admit, though, that I am still a little confused why I was mistaken for a creeper. I just figured that normally people are not suspicious of a college-aged kid entering a dorm at 1 p.m. on a school day, wearing a “Harvard ‘08” sweatshirt and carrying a book about deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs...