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...wonders: how many sales Honda will be able to squeeze out of the 2006 Civic Si, a sporty version of the basic model, featuring a 197-hp engine, 6-speed manual transmission, rear spoiler and other attributes dear to Gen-Y tire screechers? The basic Civic, after all, is one of the few cars that appeals to two distinct types of drivers: parents and teenage boys. In its basic form, it's a mom-mobile riding an unsinkable reputation for reliability and good fuel economy. But for more than two decades it's also been a hot youth car, often...
...task force will meet again next week. “My biggest concern is that whatever it is that Harvard does improves the existing quality of life in the neighborhood, and to whatever degree it can, enhance it,” said Paul Berkeley, the President of the Allston Civic Association, and a representative on the task force. He suggested that the University consider improving local transportation and scaling buildings to residential size at the periphery of their property. Residents of Allston-Brighton have already submitted their own outline of their goals for the area. The University participated...
...majority of Americans, especially in the post 9/11 atmosphere, this stance is an unpatriotic betrayal of Harvard’s civic duty. As government lawyers argued before the Supreme Court, the country has the right to expect that the military will have access to the nation’s best and brightest young people. To many, even moderates who dislike the DADT policy, it seems that gay rights are being over-prioritized at the expense of the national interest...
...proud tradition of many great universities, but it is not the mission of our undergraduate college. Our students will devote some significant part of their time to special and concentrated learning, but we aspire above all that they graduate having developed their intellectual, artistic, moral, and civic capacities as independent thinkers with a lifetime of learning still before them. That is what we mean when we welcome our graduates to the "fellowship of educated women...
...secondary importance, but is also desirable to deepen appreciation for Africa and dispel the pervasive stereotype of Africa as a primitive backwater. Reality and morality require a deep and nuanced study a troubled but not hopeless continent. This endeavor would not only confer upon Harvard further academic notability, but civic and humanitarian distinction as well...