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Absent committed leadership, we as citizens and as graduates must also take up the banner of preventing another genocide from escalating on our watch. Today, the excuse that we cannot act because we are “just students” melts away. Our challenge, sadly, is not unique—many classes of Harvard graduates have faced the spectre of mass killings. It is indeed ironic that in his Baccalaureate Address in the Memorial Church on Tuesday, University President Lawrence H. Summers cited the Vietnam War as an example of what can happen “when people fail...
...planners left no stone unturned. They started a massive publicity campaign, putting up flyers with a picture of Belushi spilling mustard on himself on every available Harvard kiosk and at other local colleges. They hung “Toga at Soho” banners. They even hired a plane to fly an advertising banner over one of the Crimson’s home games...
...covered in The Crimson’s sports pages—clearly a preposterous idea. HYP leaders argue that in fact the $10 fee is a necessary part of their revenue. But this should be a free service, as it is at HYP’s archrival, the Yale Banner...
...step in to look at the plaques and the banner hanging in the chapel at Memorial Church, you might pause and consider that these (who have had to travel across town to MIT two or three times every week for their ROTC training) are far fewer than the 10,000 men of Harvard who stepped forward to serve in World War One. But you should also appreciate the fact that least some are carrying on Harvard’s tradition of military service that goes back to President John F. Kennedy ’40, President Theodore Roosevelt, Class...
...amazingly--been 44 years since a Catholic ran for the presidency of the U.S. under a major-party banner. And how things have changed. In 1960 John F. Kennedy had to convince Americans that he was not too Catholic to be President. In 2004 John F. Kerry has to convince the Catholic bishops that he is not too American...