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...serve lattes, buildings which have served satisfactorily for generations need to be updated to provide air-conditioning, and gymnasiums must have all the latest exercise gadgetry. These and other luxuries—out of reach for most of the world’s people as well as most Americans??have a heavy environmental impact. Unless members of the University constrain their consumption, wind turbines and solar panels will do little more than serve as part of a public relations campaign. STEPHEN HELFER Cambridge, MA October...
When Americans travel abroad, indispensable items include passports, luggage, and loud and abrasive manners. “Ugly Americans?? also take with them a custom foreign to many parts of the world: tipping...
...crisis last Wednesday when he vetoed the expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). In a country where the number of people lacking health insurance rose in 2006 for the sixth year in a row to 47 million–almost one in six Americans??and the number of uninsured children stands at 8.7 million, this veto is inexcusable. SCHIP was founded in 1997 to help provide subsidized insurance for poor children. As the number of uninsured adults has climbed in the past decade, SCHIP has helped cut the rate of uninsured children...
...Yard, or all the other obvious things to love about Harvard. What really gets me are the subtleties that I didn’t notice for a few years. I love the look on the soldiers’ faces in “The Coming of the Americans?? in Widener, and how fresh the air around the Quad smells during the fall, and how Harvard Square has so many amazing bookstores. And of course, I love the people, my professors and friends and roommates, who have made my Harvard experience what it is. But it bothers me that...
...touchy-at-best subject of identity, French staunchness contrasts sharply with Americans?? cautious sensitivity. But here on the quiet streets of Paris’ suburbs, where Muslims are, in some places, the majority, and where Muslim women wearing headscarves shuffle along their daily routines undisturbed, the France imagined by legislators seems more than just a métro ride away...