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...sandwiches, salad, and soup. “We want to make sure students will be comfortable with whatever the tradeoffs are,” said Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, a member of the HUDS Student Advisory Committee. Chadbourne added that students on the subcommittee aim to have a feasible option to present to students this semester, possibly in time for the 2006-2007 budgeting process. —Staff writer Katherine M. Gray can be reached at kmgray@fas.harvard.edu...
There will be a lot of constitutional issues under discussion in weeks to come because the war on terrorism has the potential to embed itself deeply into our legal norms. Conventional wars, against nation-states that can be plainly identified and defeated, have a clear aim in sight. The fight against endlessly shape-shifting terrorist groups is more open-ended. So when we talk about trade-offs between freedom and security, it's a mistake to assume they will be short-term adjustments. The emergency powers that we agree to now may well become the American way for years...
...exercise more, but being hungry often makes us lose our resolve. Susan Roberts, a nutrition researcher at Tufts University, recommends eating plenty of fiber--found in beans, whole-wheat pasta (there are new varieties that taste better, honest!) and, of course, vegetables. Super-high-fiber cereals also help. The aim is to plug up your stomach so that it releases its contents more slowly, thereby triggering fewer hunger pangs. "Fiber isn't the only way to lose weight," Roberts says. "But for people who struggle with dieting because they are hungry, it really seems to help...
...effective to turn one’s back to the few remaining pockets of intolerance and let them wither away.” This idea is based on the erroneous assumption that discrimination against minorities is no longer commonplace. More dangerously, it advocates that, in response to actions that aim to silence and stigmatize, minority communities should be submissively silent in the face of these incidents. If Hastrup believes that hate crimes hurt entire communities, then these communities should not be criticized for coming together to console their members and to raise public awareness that violence and harassment...
...Asian universities send their students to Harvard on an exchange trip that occurs in February and Harvard students travel to Asia for a seven-to-nine-day conference over spring break, said Einkauf. Einkauf said the goal of the conferences is to promote cultural understanding. “We aim to educate Harvard students about Asia and to give Harvard students an opportunity to experience a part of the world they might not otherwise experience,” Einkauf said. “Our conferences feature significant student-to-student interaction in order to build lasting bonds between the leaders...