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...banning recruiters. Harvard is not in a position to forgo $400 million each year. These funds currently support medical and scientific research critical to millions of people, and to our common national interests. Though the outcome of the court’s decision is regrettable, Harvard has made the correct decision by agreeing to aid military recruiters on campus. HLS Dean Elena Kagan ought to be commended, moreover, for urging all members of the Harvard community to robustly oppose the military’s discriminatory employment policies. Her suggestion that students register their disapproval of “Don?...
...producing them in the first place. Just imagine if Pakistan were supplying medicines to Scandinavian countries and could withhold the supplies in protest. Muslims must become independent of Europe by making themselves strong enough economically and technically. Noor Uddin Islamabad The violent protests in Muslim countries are not the correct way to oppose caricatures of the Holy Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper. Offended Muslims should have written letters to newspaper editors and published articles on the life and teachings of Muhammad. We need a peaceful literary offensive to spread the teachings of Islam to the West. Adeel Ahmed...
...otherwise at risk of becoming a great research university with merely sub-par undergraduate teaching. “Only when our College and University equally can claim to be second to none can we begin to feel satisfied,” wrote Kirby.Kirby’s intuitions are correct. The call to put the curricular review on hold until a new Dean of the Faculty has been appointed is erroneous for a number of reasons.First, we believe that the core of the review—the proposal to replace the current Core Curriculum with broader distribution requirements and optional...
...have learned a tough lesson, and it has been a lot tougher for those tens of thousands of dead, innocent Iraqis and several thousand killed and injured American soldiers than for a few humiliated pundits. The correct response to that is not more spin but a real sense of shame and sorrow that so many have died because of errors made by their superiors, and by writers like me. All this is true, and it needs to be faced. But it is also true that we are where we are. And true that there was no easy alternative three years...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ implicit message for the next president is to be a soft-soaping glad-hander, avoid controversial topics, and stick to a politically correct ideology which won’t offend the fragile egos in your midst. Raise money, wear the suit well, and fly under the radar, and my hunch is you’ll be their hero...