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...truth that became apparent in my own year-long experience as The Crimson’s leader. Our institution is but a microcosm of the one that I have just become an alumnus of, but even on a small scale, it is clear that constant, entitled self-marginalization and victimhood weakens one’s ability to make the very reforms that may be the necessary and right thing...
Forst, who holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, arrived from Goldman Sachs at the end of a protracted year-long search. Though new to higher education administration, he had kept a hand in Harvard’s affairs, co-chairing several class gift committees and the University Committee on Student Excellence and Opportunity...
...summer, the Administration's plan to help worthy mortgage holders reduce their monthly payments should show early signs of slowing the year-long acceleration of foreclosure rates. If unemployment and desperation among people with homes worth less than their mortgages leads a greater and greater number of mortgage holders to send their keys back to their lenders, the first, and most important step the government has taken to reverse the collapse of housing will become a disheartening symbol that the Administration and Congress have not solved a big part of the cause of the recession...
...Essentials. Osborne loves to talk movies, even with other people. He invites guest programmers in for an evening; people like director John Landis and author James Ellroy choose four pictures and explain why they did. A fuller version of these conversations are slated each Saturday, when Osborne and a year-long guest co-host movies from the collection in a series called The Essentials. So far his partners have been film historian and glamour gal Molly Haskell, writer-actress Carrie Fisher, actress Rose McGowen and multimedia bad-boy/cool-guy Alec Baldwin. The taping must be an ordeal for the guests...
...Chile, they called it submarino, a form of simulated drowning that has much the same effect as what we call waterboarding. During Augusto Pinochet's 17-year-long dictatorship, thousands of Chileans were detained by the military and subjected to torture. During the submarino, they were forcibly submerged in a tank of water, over and over again, until they were on the edge of drowning. (The Chilean military liked to foul the water with urine, feces or worse, something that-so far-hasn't been known to be a part of U.S. waterboarding of terrorism suspects.) Submarino became a popular...