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...Hughes—is another big Bush asset. The president’s own Texas-tinted brain trust has already demonstrated its willingness to exploit the tragedy of September 11, 2001 in the campaign’s first round of ads, which prominently feature footage of the World Trade Center??s rubble. Bush may well manage to scare enough Americans into voting for him using these gut-wrenching images...
...sector. The CID provides just that—last year alone, the Center disbursed over $16,000 in grants to undergraduates for summer research in developing countries. Since 2002, 30 students have participated in fully-funded internships as English instructors in Namibia, Costa Rica, China and Ecuador through the Center??s alliance with WorldTeach. Prominent policymakers and leaders of non-governmental organizations have attended CID dinners to speak to students about careers and issues related to development; last fall, this roster included the former Zambian ambassador to the United States and a representative from the non-profit group...
...rooms in Hilles Library after its impending renovation. But while the proposed women’s center addresses some very valid concerns of Harvard women, it does so in only the most cosmetic way. We agree with many of the broader goals underlying the proposal, but we believe the Center??s proponents would be better off advocating for them in other ways. The council majority was wrong to give the Women’s Center its support...
...groups could advocate, for example, that women be honored and memorialized campus-wide, right alongside “the celebrated history of men’s work at Harvard—portraits, statues, names of buildings and other iconography” vilified in its proposal. Why instead do the Center??s proponents want women to be separate, so that they can be equal...
...sure, we believe the Center??s proponents may be right to call on Harvard to take more meaningful steps in demonstrating its commitment to women. But these groups could instead argue for more tenured female professors and for improving existing services for more female undergraduates campus-wide. Such measures are consistent with broader goals of women’s equality—broader goals deserving of support...