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...these men's ideas about their country, for the damage it did to the American dream may be its most enduring legacy. This is the remaining conundrum that the politicians or the historians cannot answer. Everything We Had touches the edges of this question but does not confront it head on. Had it done so, it would have been infinitely more valuable than it is now. Everything We Had tells us much that is worth knowing about the Vietnam War, but nothing that, in the end, we must know about...
...fully manned Crimson squad will confront arch-rival Princeton at Princeton this Wednesday in a battle that will determine the Ivy championship. Both teams boast undefeated records. A Crimson triumph would mark the first time since 1966 that Harvard has captured the title...
...mending President must confront some bruising battles...
...willing to believe that social science theory and the course catalogue have determined "the way things are," as if cohabiting the planet with 700,000 Hiroshima bombs were intrinsic to our nature (and thus to be incorporated into our model of the psyche), as if these bombs did not confront us with a need to change "the way things are" in our own lives...
...giving them voice. But students can already make noise; the problem is getting somebody to listen. The only good that can come of this proposal is financial--it will award $60,000 to the student council, where perhaps it will be used to support groups that will actively confront the administration. For the money--and not in hopes it will mean real reform--we ask Harvard undergraduates to support the Dowling proposal in this week's vote...