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...hearing Chomsky speak for the first time was a life-changing experience. His ability to take preconceptions and destroy them—to completely remodel one’s understanding of reality with cold, hard facts—blew me away. When I left what was then the ARCO Forum last fall, I felt as though I had been through the Matrix and back. Chomsky really has this effect because he bombards you with evidence and logic, not empty rhetoric. It is nearly impossible to hear him or read him—once you’ve actually checked...
...ARCO Forum at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (KSG), was renamed on Friday to honor John F. Kennedy Jr. and celebrate 25 years of bringing together some of the world’s most prominent political leaders...
...Dalai Lama’s visit to Harvard is his first since 1995, when he spoke at the ARCO Forum. He was scheduled to speak in the Memorial Church last year, but his visit to the U.S. was scrapped because of health concerns. Earlier in the day yesterday, University President Lawrence H. Summers—who wore a white ceremonial scarf, or kata, draped over his neck—welcomed the Dalai Lama to the University...
...roughly 350 participants listened to speeches by professors and students, who denounced President Bush’s hard-charging foreign policy. Bush made a speech on March 17, giving Saddam 48 hours to abdicate or face invasion. As the deadline neared, six experts gathered at Harvard’s ARCO Forum to discuss...
...death penalty is “arbitrary, capricious, racist, unjust and unfair,” according to former Governor of Illinois George Ryan, who spoke at the ARCO forum last night...