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...accounts, Hill is a decent and principled man, a Princeton alum who brought Pete Carill’s system with him to Columbia, sans the success. He is, admirably, taking the high road through all this. In an interview with the Spectator on Friday, he placed the blame completely on his own shoulders...
...fact, it was a Harvard alum, John H. Updike ’54, who helped popularize Borges in the United States. In an admiring 1965 New Yorker article, a draft of which is on display at Houghton, Updike argued that Borges could furnish “a clue to the way out of the dead-end narcissism and downright trashiness of present American fiction...
Four students and one alum captured lucrative Gates Scholarships last Thursday which will take them to Cambridge University this fall to study topics including international development, chemistry and education...
With thousands having taken to the streets the world over to oppose the Bush administration’s headlong rush to war against Iraq, a Harvard Law School (HLS) alum is pursuing a less conventional form of opposition. John C. Bonifaz is suing the President...
...constitutional framework of separated powers is under threat from Bush’s zealous pursuit of war in Iraq. It is quite fitting that an alum of the Harvard Law School should challenge the executive branch’s disregard for that legal framework. The Constitution’s framers deliberately vested the power to make war in the legislative branch to prevent the President from wielding the tyrannical power of a king. Congress has a duty to defend its prerogatives from executive abuses—but since it has lapsed in this duty, it is admirable and heartening that...