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...Lewis wrote, saying that the former Treasury secretary “was the product, not the source, of the trends that brought Harvard to its present predicament.” Lewis added that “incompetent administration and lack of sustained attention” hampered Summers’ agenda more than any resistance by the faculty. “[I]n a university that orients itself toward external markers of prestige and influence,” Lewis concluded, “Summers is a victim in this drama, not a villain—a victim not of faculty anger...
...ongoing economic sanctions), because outside pressure is counterproductive and undermines positive, grass-roots change. Foreign interference destroys civilian lives, institutions, and infrastructure, and provides a pretext for heightened repression. Solidarity with Iranian dissidents must be sophisticated enough to avoid manipulation by the neo-conservative agenda. Make no mistake, the first victims of any U.S. aggression against Iran—completely left out of the agenda of the “Freedom Concert”—would be on-the-ground Iranian progressives. “We are under pressure here both from hard-liners in the judiciary...
...band Major Major, singer-songwriter Katie E. Fitzgerald ’09, and saxophonist Marcus G. Miller ’08. In between musical performances, representatives from the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club took the stage to endorse the concert’s human rights agenda. Undergraduate Council President John S. Haddock ’07 and Iranian student activist leader Akbar Atri also spoke. But despite the diversity of political views of the speakers, the concert organizers identified themselves as nonpartisan and declined to comment on issues of military intervention. “This event does...
...band Major Major, singer-songwriter Katie E. Fitzgerald ’09, and saxophonist Marcus G. Miller ’08. In between musical performances, representatives from the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club took the stage to endorse the concert’s human rights agenda. Undergraduate Council President John S. Haddock ’07 and Iranian student activist leader Akbar Atri also spoke. But despite the diversity of political views of the speakers, the concert organizers identified themselves as nonpartisan and declined to comment on issues of military intervention. “This event does...
...this reasonable agenda is lost in the propaganda of lady-crazies—which tells women that liberation revolves around sex, that childbirth is best reserved for test tubes, and that the key to being successful women is to bash men—Harvard will suffer a great embarrassment...