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...Reeves ’72 offered a longer criticism of Kelley’s behavior. “It is my view that in one’s first term in the council, you can err on the side of needing more information because you want to fully understand a thing,” Reeves said. “[But] at some point, you want to put in the human factor and say, do you want to torture the manager enough?” “A lot of people feel that if you’ve filed...
...about environmental protection. “Prince Charles has been a forward-thinker on environmental issues since the 1970s, on issues ranging from sustainable agriculture to climate change,” Gore said, according to published remarks. “I have always been impressed by his ability to understand complex global issues and his deep commitment to solve the pressing issues facing our world.” The award is given annually by the Center for Health and the Global Environment, a division of Harvard Medical School. The center cited the Prince’s public advocacy for environmental...
Except for the few unlucky enough to have experienced it, most Harvard students are culturally unprepared to understand violence. The campus attempts to squelch aggression by intellectualizing it: there are entire departments effectively devoted to the study of people killing each other. But there is something fundamental about violence that Historical Study A-12, “Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern World,” doesn’t quite capture. Academia is inherently ill-equipped to deal with the realities of conflict, since it is based on the premise that disputes can be resolved through rational exchange...
...stated a warning against national projects that have about them an aspect of grandiose self-destruction. ''Our choice,'' he says, ''is not between good and bad. That is easy. Our choice is between bad and worse. Israel cannot defend itself if half its population is the enemy. The Arabs understand that if there is no settlement, then there will be hell, for them and for us.'' This is the real danger, Harkabi believes: ''If an individual claims that he can live only provided that he sits on the shoulders of another individual, and further that he has the right...
...privately by Jews in America and elsewhere. ''The Israelis have produced a modern country -- doorknobs and hinges, plumbing fixtures, electrical supplies, chamber music, airplanes, teacups,'' Saul Bellow has written. ''It is both a garrison state and a cultivated society, both Spartan and Athenian. It tries to do everything, to understand everything, to make provision for everything . . . These people are actively, individually engaged in universal history. I don't see how they can bear it.'' Still, as Israel turns 40, it seems unhappy, agitated and exhausting. The idealistic founding energies have matured into certain disillusions of middle age. The moral discrepancy...