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...reality as much a part of the program as any coach, player, or administrator in the school’s history. It reverberates in the banner-less (not counting the women’s pennants) rafters of Lavietes Pavilion, it deters fans from making the cross-river trip to the gym, and it causes the best recruits to avoid the Cambridge campus, heading farther south to schools that can offer a potential spot in the March spotlight...
...phenomena plaguing modern society. “We have been talking about these things that bothered us, and then began writing short pieces, mostly for each other.” These individual essays eventually became one of the defining features of the journal and were grouped under the banner, “The Intellectual Situation.” Despite having similar interests, the editors rarely agree completely with each other. In fact, argument and debate have proved to be the lifeblood of the journal. “Things would get really ugly,” says Greif jokingly, describing...
...flags and chanting prayers gathered on Wednesday around the 19th century St. Aleksander Church, a few hundred yards from the Polish Sejm, or parliament, in downtown Warsaw to demand that the government toughen its abortion laws. "A nation that kills its children won't survive!" read one banner, quoting the late Polish pontiff John Paul II. "Poland cannot kill its babies!" declared another. "Let the unborn see our Homeland." Not far away, in Constitution Square, a Stalinist cluster of 1950s social realism architecture, about 1,000 demonstrators mounted a counter-rally in favor of loosening Poland's laws: "Free women...
...year the largely Shi'ite government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki choked off supplies of food and fuel to the predominantly Sunni province. Tribal violence, which has long been a source of unrest, intensified as resources dwindled. Sunni insurgents who had gathered in the area under the banner of Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, killed by U.S. forces near Baqubah last June, launched a campaign to exterminate Shi'ites, who retaliated in kind. As in Baghdad, kidnappings and gruesome murders have become everyday fare...
...climate change and resource depletion, the vexing issues we obsess over now will suddenly seem very small. The standard-bearers of the future will be those who provide compelling answers to crucial environmental questions. Let us hope that Faust is willing to carry Harvard forward under this green banner...