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...people, and should the human rights violations at Bagram—some of whose denizens have been held there for over six years and two of whom were killed in 2002 due to beatings by American soldiers—persist, it would be counterproductive to this effort and to America??s moral status in the world...
...other firms and retirement benefits almost three times greater in value. Employee culture tends to improve in concert. For example, W.L. Gore, the worker-owned firm that manufactures Gore-Tex, has no formal “bosses” and is routinely ranked by Fortune as one of America??s best companies to work...
...Think You Can Dance,” I caught a few minutes of U.S. President Barack Obama delivering perhaps the finest speech he’s ever given. The jury is still out on whether his leave-it-to-Congress strategy was the smart way to go about reforming America??s dysfunctional health-care system, but there is little question that in his speech he assumed leadership over the nearly century-long effort to provide health insurance to every American man, woman, and child. Sometime in the very near future, Obama will be able to lay claim...
...find,” says head teaching fellow Michele Koons. “There’s more [drinking and smoking] paraphernalia than in some tavern sites.” Perhaps the most impressive finds, though, were the fragments of moveable type from the first printing press in North America??the one housed in the Indian College. The small strips of metal that students uncovered actually played an important role in the development of American print culture. The Eliot Bible, the first published work in North America, was produced on the Indian College press in the local Algonquian...
...student that evolved into a discussion of both policy and politics at Harvard Hillel last night. Before an audience of over 100 people—many of them members of the Hillel community—Dershowitz reaffirmed his support for Obama despite mixed rhetoric from the White House on America??s approach to Israel-Palestine relations and the subsequent backlash from the American Jewish community, which voted overwhelmingly for the then-Illinois senator. Taking a more critical stance, Joel B. Pollak ’99, who graduated from the Law School in 2009 and is running for Congress...