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...provides a welcome contrast to the sad cowardice of Yale, which fully blocked Napster access last April in response to a lawsuit. More importantly, the decision reaffirms the principle that universities should be allowed to trust students with responsibility for their online conduct. The question that Harvard must now confront is one of enforcement when students make the wrong decision: The University must use discretion when addressing accusations of copyright infringement and should provide its students with the maximum degree of protection afforded...
Justice is too deeply steeped in cultural values and judgement too strongly influenced by social perceptions to allow an exclusively American court to hear a suit involving so many international actors. The injustice faced here is one that individuals all over the world must confront: How do we hold large multinational corporations--some of them richer and more powerful than entire countries--accountable for their actions? This cannot be done on the basis of one legal system, because one legal system does not include the values and ideas of all who are involved. It's equivalent to saying that only...
Adam R. Kampff '02 said when he turned to confront the group, they became agitated, and one man was physically restrained by others. Following a brief verbal altercation, one man hit Kampff on the forehead with a plastic recycling...
Last year, The Crimson published an excellent story about the amount of sleep that Harvard students get, and concluded that it is too little. We should not let this topic go away. We ought to confront a very dangerous reality, which is that almost all of us in the Harvard community--undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, administrators--are deliberately robbing ourselves of one of the most fundamental nutrients known to the animal kingdom. We may argue that high-flyers don't have time to sleep. But this deprivation is not unique to the academy. It is pervasive across modern American society...
...Israel in 1948, and their subsequent despair. It's only when he joins a guerrilla organization that he develops some sense of Palestinian identity and pride, and when after months of intense training he hears of the intended target, he expresses his joy at being given an opportunity to "confront the Israelis...