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...almost exactly a mile from Harvard Square in Cambridge, the center of our University’s past, to Barry’s Corner in Allston, the heart of its future. But the contrast between the two couldn’t be greater...
...stark contrast to the exams, problem sets and theses that typified the rest of their undergraduate lives, the Class of 2006’s final days were punctuated by baseball, hula hoops and roller-coasters. Courtesy of the 2006 Senior Class Committee (SCC), the soon-to-be latest guard of Harvard graduates was treated to a series of events collectively known as “Senior Week.” The latest edition of this Harvard tradition largely followed the same script as previous years, but according to those that put the events together, the Class of 2006 took Senior...
...talk to, how would it appear, what are the visuals going to be like at this kind of a meeting or that—it felt like a political campaign strategy session for someone who’s running for office.” The meeting offered a jarring contrast, Gordon says, to the one that Neil L. Rudenstine held before he left for Japan as University president in the mid-nineties. Gordon says that Rudenstine convened “eight or nine” Japan scholars for two hours and asked each to tell him “what...
...everyone, including the government, businesses, health care providers, and individuals to share responsibility. During debate on the bill, thousands of people, from union workers to senior citizens, held rallies and meetings in support of broad reform. I can tell you firsthand that the resulting legislation reflected their input. By contrast, the federal government’s reform of Medicare prescription drug coverage in 2003 was far removed from those whom it actually affected...
...This isn?t the first time Warner has taken on Rumsfeld and the Pentagon. After he held hearings on prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, many Republicans privately chastised Warner. They complained that the hearings became a forum for Democrats to attack Rumsfeld, the President and the war. By contrast, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter largely ducked any public probe of the prison abuses. But the courtly Warner seems willing to anger his GOP colleagues once more and shine a public spotlight on another Pentagon scandal...