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Which brings us to student journalists. By grouping those who do try to affect Harvard under the general heading of activist, we do a disservice to the community. One need not be a constant gadfly to participate in a society. Journalists have a tendency to concentrate on the loudest or bestknown matters of contention in our community. But that doesn't mean divestment is the only issue of concern at Harvard. In addition to the omnipresent South Africa questions, there are questions about the diversity of the faculty, the effectiveness of a liberal arts education, University relations with Cambridge...
...mind knew few limits. Laws of a nation and even constitutions should undergo generational revisions, he suggested. "No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law," he wrote. He felt, like few other men of his age, the inexorable current of humankind in which the only constant was change. But, of course, he was too much the dreamer. His friend James Madison brought him down to earth, pointing out that generations were not mere tidy mathematical certainties and that debts, like those incurred for the American Revolution, could benefit those who were to come. As always, Jefferson...
...this summer and in turn contributed to the increase in Summer School enrollment. Your title, however, indicates that you have unconsciously (perhaps) accepted as fact the Reagan administration's claim that the terrorist actions are all (or mostly) the result of a plot emanating from Tripoli. Actually, despite the constant assertions that the evidence linking Qaddafi to the various incidents is "incontrovertible," we the people of this country have yet to be presented with the slightest shred...
Perhaps non-Anglo-Saxon immigration is too recent a phenomenon to transform Harvard substantially, one of the most ancient institutions in the United States. But that doesn't mean schools like Harvard should be avoided, rather there should be constant pressure on them to change. Pressure that we sometimes forget to apply just as we forget our fleeting ethnic heritages...
...pumping in 30 points a game and then hitting the library until midnight. As a Senator, he slightly unnerves some of his colleagues by relentlessly writing & in a small notebook that he keeps in his inside jacket pocket. "He watches you," says Senator David Pryor of Arkansas. "It's constant...