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Members of Harvard’s Burma Action Movement will be holding an informational meeting today and will visit the Massachusetts State House on Thursday to encourage legislators to vote in favor of the Massachusetts Burma Bill...
...growers and distributors, though, the situation is different entirely. They form the linemen of a vast American underclass of crime and poverty. Their entire lives are, by and large, extralegal. They do not donate to politicians and they do not vote. Their trade demands that they shed their citizenry, that they give up the privileges and protections of society for them and their families. The law does not demur to strip away their freedom, and they fill up the ranks of inmates in wild overproportion—over 55 percent of the federal prison population is incarcerated for drug offenses...
Less than a week after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left a bemused and scornful audience at Columbia University, Iran’s parliament voted by a margin of 215 to declare the “aggressor U.S. army and the Central Intelligence Agency…terrorists [who] nurture terror.” Their reasoning might seem dubious—apparently based on the U.S.’s decision to drop atomic bombs 60 years ago—but the vote provides a unique opportunity for American introspection...
...feel that morally, you can’t add to, as opposed to change, the requirements of students already here,” Harris said. The committee’s goal, which Harris says is an ambitious one, is to choose the implementation plan in time for a vote by professors before the start of the spring shopping period in February. By that time, the committee also hopes to have at least a partial list of Core courses that will count for Gen Ed credit, Harris said. Using the guidelines set by the Gen Ed legislation passed...
...decisions like the FAS vote to move back concentration choice inherently involve trade-offs, and in this case the sophomore fall tutorial is part of the price...