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...program.” “I think ROTC might have a negative stigma,” Jimmy said. “It’s nice that the public can see that we’re just regular Harvard students and, yeah, we do serve a purpose, albeit maybe not on Harvard’s campus because ROTC is not on Harvard’s campus.”“As I understand,” he continued, “ROTC hasn’t had a presence on campus for several decades...
Former University President Lawrence H. Summers’s critics, it seems, should be happily sated: Faust appears to be everything Summers was not. In the stead of a bold albeit tactless social scientist and a former cabinet secretary, Harvard has ensconced a career academic and mid-level administrator culled from the women’s studies henhouse. Where Summers elicited controversy, Faust brings consensus. Summers’ chauvinistic disregard for the humanities will be replaced by the interdisciplinary tolerance of Faust, who “knows people in just about every department on campus...
...wake of reports that he had had an affair with the wife of one of his aides and his admission of alcohol abuse; in San Francisco. Though some officials called for his resignation, many declared Newsom--who is being treated as an outpatient--courageous and offered support, albeit cautiously. One member of the city's board of supervisors said of the recent disclosures, "I hope there's nothing else...
...poem while at Harvard. His poems are usually written for one pair of eyes only, after which they are destroyed, never to be read by another person. Nagy’s wish for his poems to communicate on a personal level is a goal shared by many of colleagues, albeit in a less extreme fashion.Vasiliauskas puts it this way: “Personally, even though writing poetry is a private act, there’s always a will for me to communicate.” She is also a former editor-in-chief of The Gamut, the only all-poetry...
...Ikhwan's jewelry-box lecture was directed, albeit politely, at Tatap and me. Both of us were wearing long shirts and trousers. But our necks were showing and our hair was uncovered. Truth be told, we were showing considerable wrist. The journalistic dress code is tricky in such situations: I don't show up for interviews in miniskirts, as a rule, and I try to be sensitive to indigenous customs. But what if local tradition means ignoring my presence altogether? I once conducted an interview in northern Afghanistan with a formerly Taliban-aligned warlord, who refused to speak directly...