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Despite their fundamental differences, conservative and liberal groups on campus share a common woe: Many students find partisan political sentiments difficult for the moderate mouth to swallow. A die-hard liberal throughout high school, I often feel as if my reluctance to write-off final clubs as dens of sin or bang a drum in a throbbing mass of protesters precludes me from identifying as a left-winger at Harvard. On the other hand, no part of me wishes to identify with the posh and elitist “ancient principles” of “Western civilization?...
...team with a deep commitment to applying the most sophisticated thinking to all of its activities.” The Shaw job won’t be the only demand on Summers’ post-presidency schedule. He has also signed up to blog for The New Republic and write a monthly column for Financial Times, though he has yet to contribute to either publication. “I think he’d be the first to say that he would have preferred to have been still president of Harvard, but I think he’s also clearly...
...native son. In what may be Adams’ best composition of the past ten years, “The Dharma at Big Sur” is a 27-minute concerto for electric violin and orchestra that makes up the first half of his new double-disc release. Adams writes of the piece: “[It] express[es] the ‘shock of recognition’” of arriving and experiencing the magnificent Pacific coastline for the first time. From beginning to end, the piece exudes tropical colors from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and sweeping lines...
...Goldman Sachs?TS: But if you don’t go to Goldman Sachs then where are you? It’s like there is not that much room to go up from there. Paul Mecurio Writer for the Daily Show RR: Harvard students love the Daily Show. You write for the Daily Show. Should they be thanking you? PM: Absolutely, it’s all me. I did everything. I’m the brains behind it.RR: Are you concerned that many college students now get their news primarily from The Daily Show? PM: I think they should...
...wands while our Sikh classmates can run wild with their ceremonial scimitars. Our point is, there is too much injustice in your everyday life to be bothered by things like global warming. How can we be thinking about our children’s lives when, right now, as we write this, Harvard dining halls are stocked with generic breakfast cereal...