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...little politicians have earned the ire and distrust of the public for placing electoral self-interest ahead of sound policies and a guiding hand, but clearly they do so with a certain comfort that any public backlash will be muted. Even the newly re-minted Warner-Lieberman bill, which aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2050, appears destined to fail...
...Bayly’s “Birth of the Modern World” in order to understand the reality of imperialism. We students of the 21st century closed our books this spring having swallowed Michel Foucault’s philosophies of ethics and power, content that our comfort with social theory extends beyond “supply and demand” and into the realm of “discourse,” “alterity,” “postcolonialism,” and other rhetoric that strikes our parents’ generation as silly...
...Opening up the Core and Gen Ed requirements and extending the deadline for making the pass/fail versus letter-grading choice will lower the invisible barrier many students place in front of venturing outside their academic comfort zones. There is no substitute for students’ willingness to embrace the challenges and risks of exploring new fields, but there is also no reason Harvard should not have academic policies that encourage...
...houses, and often attend many of the same social gatherings (read: keggers) as them. Even with a conflict-of-interest policy that attempts to eliminate bias from our coverage, we cannot help but feel a certain empathy for the student-athletes we are so connected to.Despite the ease and comfort that our extraordinary access provides, perhaps it might seem to produce a net negative effect, coloring our coverage and complicating our personal interactions. Are college journalists incapable of unbiased, high-quality reporting? And when we see that athlete we just criticized in our last column, is there...
There’s no rest for the weary and no comfort on the road for frequent travelers. The Harvard women’s water polo team knows that all too well after playing 22 of its 24 games on the road this season.Its daunting schedule included a two-day, five-game road trip to Oneonta, N.Y., a three-game excursion to sunny Southern California, and a four-game stay in Utica, N.Y. for the Northern Championships. The team did not enjoy much respite at home either, dropping both of its home games in routs against admittedly difficult opponents...