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...officers of the Harvard chapter notified 96 seniors of their eligibility for induction in mid-October. The initial group was chosen based on grades, difficulty of class work, and intellectual experience, according to chapter president and Leverett House Master Howard Georgi...
...apparent irrelevance to many students.Charles T. James ’09-’10 and Max H.Y. Wong ’10, on the other hand, raise serious and valuable points on important issues like Ad Board reform and financial aid. It is admirable that they have chosen to turn their own experiences with Harvard’s sometimes dysfunctional bodies into concrete proposals, and their student-centered reform agenda is laudable, if sometimes far-fetched.In particular, though, we are impressed by the experience and platform of UC Finance Committee Chair Andrea R. Flores...
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen retired General Eric Shinseki, who voiced the first, lone dissent of the Bush Administration's cut-rate plan for the Iraq war, to head the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The move shows Obama's deep concern for the needs of wounded veterans. More poignantly, it marks a comeback for an Army officer who was spurned by his superiors, then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, for warning that the war's post-invasion phase would require many more troops than the Pentagon believed...
...flight to its present (precarious) position. And he has personally demonstrated both the selflessness and the ardor needed to move mountains and make change, not only for Massachusetts residents but for millions of Americans over the years. Even as Kennedy used his time to commend his chosen candidate for reviving “the possibility of hope for one America,” University administrators are to be congratulated for planning this rare event, to bestow a deserved honor on one of the most committed American public servants in recent memory. As we, like Kennedy himself, set off into these...
...dire has the piracy problem become that several international shipping companies have chosen to abandon the shortcut through the Suez Canal that requires their vessels to pass the Somali coast, and instead route them around South Africa. "As long as there is no firm deterrent, attacks will continue," said Noel Choong, chief of the International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Center in Kuala Lumpur. "The risks are low, and the returns are so high." And not only for the pirates, either...