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...into the Yard and boxed off into neat slots on a weekly planner is nonsensical. Just as anyone with an iota of intellectual curiosity does not "stop" educating herself after getting a degree, anyone who is a member of society (as we all are) does not "stop" participating in civic life for the purposes of academics. For our own education we should not, and in reality, we cannot: we are still participating in the economy every time we buy a textbook; we are still participating in democracy every time we do or do not cast a vote; we are still...
...disappointed by the negative and, frankly, trite responses from students interviewed in your article concerning the restored bells of St. Paul's Church (News, Feb. 17). In lieu of praise for the conservation of an unusual civic instrument was all-too-Harvardian whining. The sundry 15-minute strikes on bronze bells are treasured hall-marks of many European cities and universities, and those peals operate as any decent public time-piece should--24 hours a day. Sadly, in a culture such as ours (which values asphalt and chain-link over bronze), peals like those in the campanile of St. Paul...
Triantafillou was a member of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) party; she has since disaffiliated...
Winters is a preceptor in the Harvard math department as well as publisher of the Cambridge Civic Journal, an e-mail newsletter providing political analyses of city happenings...
...allegations of Presidential infidelity, perjury and subornation thereof have exposed the consequences of sanctioning the reckless pursuits of zealous lawyers. And the news media, all too eager to support the tabloidization of politics, have further undermined the civic life of the country...