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...debate, Kerry did something no other Democrat in the race could do. He gave a moving tribute, surrounded by Vietnam combat veterans, at the Vietnam memorial in Columbia, S.C. He introduced the gunner on his swift boat in the Mekong Delta, a local African-American minister named David Alston, and talked about the bond they shared. "We are brothers who love each other today because of our shared experiences," he said, "and that is a gift we veterans can give to the rest of the country. We can remind people of the importance of service like David Alston...
Samantha G. Alston ’05, a concentrator in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies who will spend the fall semester in Paris, said that obtaining her department’s approval for the courses she plans to take abroad was the most difficult part of the planning process...
...departments don’t really understand or don’t really believe Harvard’s new approach, and so they’re kind of a little bit hesitant about encouraging students to do so,” Alston said...
Though last year’s policy changes made things simpler, Alston said, the process remains too complicated, and still involves too many meetings and forms...
Such is the premise of Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of An American Terrorist by Alston S. Chase ’57, who contends that the college’s General Education Program, the precursor to today’s Core Curriculum, may have pushed Kaczynski into his bombing campaign. The Core has been long-reviled some students, but could its 1950s predecessor have moulded one of the most disaffected and violent minds in recent memory? Chase has long answered an emphatic “yes,” having initially floated his theory in a June 2000 Atlantic...