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...yelled at by their instructors. That’s an indignity that Harvard usually reserves for accounting students. If you want to know what visceral discomfort looks like, watch a Harvard ROTC student shuffle across campus in his military uniform. Banished by the Faculty in 1969 amid a rising tide of anti-war sentiment on Harvard’s campus, ROTC has more recently been relegated to its pariah status because of the military’s mindless discrimination against homosexuals. Forget the active duty that follows graduation—for our peers in uniform, the years of glory-free...
...Amid a week of Earth Day celebrations, the Undergraduate Council endorsed one of the University’s efforts to work toward a greener Harvard. On Sunday night the UC passed a resolution encouraging a switch to 30 percent recycled paper. The legislation joins an ongoing effort by the Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI) for all the University’s departments to start purchasing recycled paper. “Thirty percent recycled paper is great because it’s reducing the amount of trees you have to harvest,” said Philip W. Kreycik...
...Amid the tide of red ink flowing from many of the world's largest banks these days, big profits seem out of fashion. On Tuesday alone, Deutsche Bank announced its first quarterly loss in five years, while HBOS, the U.K.'s biggest mortgage lender, said it would replenish its depleted coffers with an $8 billion share sale. Both firms announced billions of dollars of fresh write-downs...
...that levies a toll on motorists entering central London. His calm response to the July 2005 terror attacks on the capital and his leadership in securing the 2012 Olympic Games for the city have also enhanced his reputation. But he's been damaged by the departure of two aides amid allegations of cronyism at City Hall, and he has been mocked for giving red-carpet treatment to controversial figures such as the radical Islamic cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who last year repaid the compliment by signing a deal to provide London's buses with cheap...
...quickly revealed that the LRA's top negotiator was sacked amid reports he had stolen tens of thousands of dollars and failed to deliver a letter from the Ugandan President to Kony guaranteeing his safety. And then, despite days of waiting, no one could contact the rebel leader, who was already elusive but has become even more so since he executed his deputy late last year. Reports of further clashes and summary executions within the ranks trickled back into the camp from elders who were dispatched to find out what was going...