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...instead, Harvard has chosen to exclude ROTC from campus. It has chosen not to fund overhead expenses of Harvard students participating in ROTC at MIT. It has chosen not to officially recognize the program. It has included only a section warning students against joining ROTC in its handbook, but nothing commending the service of those in the program. It has disgraced the very students who have shunned lucrative private-sector jobs in the name of service to their country and caused their numbers to dwindle on campus. I am personally aware of students who were accepted to Harvard and chose...

Author: By Caleb L. Weatherl | Title: Harvard’s Moral Failure | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...think the bottom line is that they're protests of an issue organized by people who are unhappy with the way President Obama has chosen to make policy. As a demonstration of the organizers' intended purpose, I would rank their effectiveness as much better than the SLAM hunger strikes of a few semesters...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer | Title: Tea Party 2.0 | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...standards of India's poorly paid junior lawyers, but the prosecutor in the case, Ujwal Nikam, objected vehemently to Kazmi's request. He argued that making an exception would encourage other court-appointed lawyers to demand special fees in future cases. Qasab's lawyer was supposed to be chosen from the state of Maharashtra's 17-member legal aid panel, but so far two lawyers from the panel have stepped down, and no others have volunteered. "The legal aid panel will be redundant," Nikam argued. Tahiliani, however disagreed, agreeing to an undisclosed additional payment, which he said should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mumbai Terrorist Trial Begins in India | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...Whichever bill is chosen - and others are being circulated as well - a successful cash-for-clunkers program wouldn't be cheap. Germany's program may end up costing the government some $6 billion, three times the initial price tag. Since Obama has said that money for the cash-for-clunkers program needs to come out of existing stimulus spending, that might take some creative accounting. But a cash-for-clunkers program, whatever its environmental benefits, would provide the government with a way to aid the domestic auto industry without giving Detroit any more direct handouts. "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cash for Clunkers: A Green Deal to Help Detroit? | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

This was the first time that two Kennedy School professors were chosen in the same year, said Patricia L. Rosenfield, program director for the Carnegie Scholars program...

Author: By Huma N. Shah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HKS Profs Named Carnegie Scholars | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

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