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...going to be in the presidential election.” Blendon said that this divide between Republicans and Democrats is based on the differing ways in which each party views the term “socialized medicine.” Although Americans of both parties support the general concept of universal health care, divergent interpretations of the term is the source of controversy, Blendon added. Caleb L. Weatherl ’10, president of the Harvard Republican Club, said he believed that moving to a system of socialized medicine would be a step in the wrong direction...
...receive their grades earlier, and the “Q” site will remain open even after exams have concluded.But these measures do not primarily ensure, however, that teaching fellows have equal opportunity to be upbraided by their unlettered pupils. Rather, the Faculty has inadvertently undermined a fundamental concept of education by casually inverting the roles of student and master.Earning a place on the Harvard Faculty is no small achievement. The gate to this exclusive preserve remains almost ineluctably locked, even to the most promising of scholars, until he has clearly distinguished himself in his respective field...
...hopes and dreams of a better life for Muslims back a generation." Muslims, she says, "became [al Qaeda's] victims too." For the first half of the book, Bhutto attempts to reclaim Islam from the perversion of fundamentalists that would use it for political advantage, explaining how the concept of jihad, meaning a personal struggle "to follow the right path," had been adulterated for the purposes of fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. She puts the treatment of women as described in the Koran into context, demonstrating how at the time it was revolutionary and far more progressive than what...
...makes the life around it into theater. However, the artistic possibilities it foreshadows are undermined by the disparate and fragmentary ways that “The World as a Stage,” which will be on display from Feb. 1 through April 27, offers towards understanding its uniting concept. The introductory text reads, “‘The World as a Stage’ acknowledges how life and art are experienced in our spectacle-soaked era of reality TV and celebrity worship, in which both ordinary citizens and the famous share center stage...
...Indeed, both Harvard men and women must confront the same problem: a dating culture conspicuous by its absence. The concept of taking someone out to dinner and a movie has been replaced by the nebulous notion of the hook-up. Harvard students are getting more action on Friday nights with total strangers than many loving Victorian couples did in the course of 50-year marriages. This is not optimal. But what other options does our generation have...