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Milder said he believed a freeze was unlikely, and in the meantime, Petersen said he was optimistic. “I’m hoping that we can work out this conflict with the faculty and the administration,” he said...
...employs her acting abilities and womanly wiles to delicately tempt Mr. Yee. Taming the beast, however, becomes an increasingly perilous and poisonous endeavor. The character dynamics are evocative and rich in nuance. They comprise the film’s nucleus and are roughly microcosmic of the external political conflict. The first half of the movie underscores the students’ naïve confusion between histrionic ideals and a harsher reality, until a particularly bloody episode jars the troupe and shows that they have already committed themselves to the latter. Unfortunately, this commitment proves an indelible action. The relationship between...
...choose the themes they preferred to be covered here on campus. More academic and activist films and shorts were shown for free in Langdell South in the Harvard Law School. “Occupation 101,” a critically-lauded documentary on the roots of the Isreali-Palestinian conflict, is the highlight of these showings.According to Chomsky, the choice of that film reflects the interests of students.“There is a special interest for American students in this case, because whether they know it or not, their jackboot is on the necks of Palestinians, and has been...
...list of endeavors in which any reasonable person agrees that rationality is an absolute prerequisite. Ask the people of Darfur or Iraq whether they would prefer to enjoy the “apparent advantages” of reason-based governance or continue to reap the fruits of violent religious conflict. My guess, though a reasonable one, is that they would prefer to argue over the existential limitations of enlightenment thinking since rational people tend not to burn, mutilate, rape, and blow-up other rational people. I appreciate Usmani’s call for Harvard to embrace humility, and would agree...
...presidency, Nicolas Sarkozy earned lavish praise and applause for his active engagement and seeming omnipresence on the international stage. But now hunkered down to face a series of daunting challenges at home, the French President is steeling himself for several stressful months of grappling with economic malaise, social conflict and an increasingly chilly relationship with France's voters...