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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...talk about animal welfare issues,” says Hoopes. The Society’s motive is “not to recruit people to become vegetarian,” says member Amary K. Wiggin ’09. It is to “get Harvard to adapt a more humanitarian approach to food,” she says. For now, the group’s main activities include a potluck dinner every Monday at Karma Yoga at 7:30 p.m. But the off-campus dinner location isn’t a protest—the Harvard Vegetarian Society...

Author: By Jun Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Humanitarian Approach to Dining | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

...confrontations with the Mahdi Army and militias [and] focus on active threats, whether Sunni or Shi'ites. This is a search for least bad options that have many conflicting priorities, and the best possible solution is going to be messy, involve contradictory priorities, and force the U.S. to constantly adapt to the realities of Iraq politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Legitimate Role for Iraq's Militias? | 3/11/2007 | See Source »

...like the intrepid Magellan, the Air Force pilots were flummoxed by the time-space continuum. In the pilots' case, the problem was fixed within 48 hours when Lockmart developed a software patch. It's not much different from the one you've recently received so your computer can adapt to the earlier arrival of Daylight Saving Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A $330 Million Case of Jet Lag | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

...impress upon new Rhodes Scholars that things in Oxford are therefore likely to be very different from what they were accustomed to as American undergraduates. They are going to need to understand how others from other cultures think and behave and they need to be able to adapt to those differences. The marked differences between, say, Harvard and Oxford, usually prove to be a source of extraordinary benefit and considerable joy, but not for everyone, especially if one matriculates at Oxford with false expectations or for the wrong reasons...

Author: By Elliot F. Gerson | Title: Oxford Is About Transitions And Not For Everyone | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...These real-world experiences required Kruger to execute interesting tasks, adapt to odd situations, all while dealing with the stress of being the one to blame if everything were to go wrong...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Morgan A. Kruger '07 | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

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