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...sports stories in the morning papers growing up.In my sophomore year, when the chance to join The Crimson Sports Board arose, I thought that I would give it a shot.One scary semester later, I was a “staff writer” for one of the country??s most prestigious college newspapers, writing about tennis and lacrosse and other sports I’d never played or watched before.But it wasn’t really until this year—my senior year—that I got the chance to fully appreciate the opportunity presented...
...France, President Nicolas Sarkozy introduced a pedagogical emphasis on the Holocaust to his country??s classrooms. But while this attempt to address and correct one of history’s great crimes demonstrated laudable self-awareness, it also had the character of a stunt: Where was the mention of France’s more recent oversteps in colonial Algeria? Perhaps education design should be left to the educators, and not the politicians. It is, of course, difficult to ask or impel any major power to come to grips with its past errors, but the nearer states draw...
...said, ‘I thought this was a Communist country??why aren’t things Communist here?’” she said recently...
...Judith G. Bridell ’59 and her fellow participants in the “Experiment in International Living” program in Poland met with an official from the country??s communist party...
...Unfortunately, Walesa, an electrician from the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland who would later serve as the country??s president, could not set foot on U.S. soil for fear of being unable to return to his country, thus becoming the first to have his speech read in absentia at a Harvard Commencement...