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...with its attendant drudgery: It is the fate of man to earn his keep by toil. Perhaps that is why activism comes so effortlessly to Harvard students—they acutely realize the effort of employment and the comparative ease of stroking one’s ego while greedily claiming the moral high ground. The ivory-tower activist only need reach for his keyboard, or, if he feels adventurous that day, grab a placard and march in the square, to soothe his weary conscience worn down by the moral baggage of upper-middle-class luxury. Common sense approved by custom...
...Council isn’t the only thing at stake in Tuesday’s local elections. In the third most densely populated city in the state, how votes will affect the distribution of land space ranks high in residents’ minds. For the 15 candidates competing to claim one of the nine seats on the Council, the complicated equation that combines neighbors’ concerns with the green tenets of sustainable development in order to yield an amenable solution to development, is a tricky one to solve. Incumbent candidate Craig A. Kelley, who is known for his anti...
...digs. Sophomore libero Katherine Kocurek led the defensive effort, notching a team-high 17 digs, and fellow sophomore Lily Durwood distributed 44 assists. PENN 3, HARVARD 1The Crimson came out firing Friday in Philadelphia, and, aided by a plethora of attack errors by the Quakers, was able to claim the first game by a score of 30-25. Penn offset an impressive 21 kills in the first game with 11 errors, good for a .192 hitting percentage. Harvard managed 11 kills with only three errors and hit .222. The Crimson broke open a 17-17 tie with a five-point...
...death in the parish house of his Guatemala City church the day after he published an exhaustive report of human rights violations by the Guatemalan army during the civil war. Although three military officers were convicted of the murder and jailed in 2001, Guatemalan-American writer Francisco Goldman claims a key witness identified Molina as one of several high-ranking army men who gathered near the church on the night of the murder. But Molina dismisses the claim as "pure lies," saying he was not even in the country when Gerardi was killed...
...most damning revelation to arise in the drama came on Thursday, when results of an on-going inquiry by two United Nations organizations refuted the claim by Zoe's Ark officials that the 103 children were seriously ill or frail orphans from war-torn Darfur who were being rushed to France for urgent care. Instead, the U.N. investigation found at least 91 of the children had at least one parent still alive. Confirming the status of the remaining 12 is taking longer, due to their young age and difficulties communicating...