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...because of the important contribution it ought to make to the Harvard campus. The Society has an inherent quality that should enable it to contribute to campus life in a great way, one that has thus far been neglected by its leadership: internationalism. Many American students at Harvard are curious about their international counterparts; the Society has made no attempt to engage them with its activities. The number of American students who have attended any Woodbridge events this year has languished in the teens. These happy few came without invitation, and were given no reason to return. This is unacceptable...
...desk. But for people used to typing in strange web addresses all the time, it’s hard to see it that way. Instead, it seems to us that HBS had posted their admit list on a proverbial telephone pole somewhere in Cambridge, location undisclosed, and some curious applicants had gone out looking and stumbled upon it. Is such an action reprehensible? Is it worthy of automatic rejection...
...hosts a "pawty" quite like Lane Nemeth. In a Manhattan law office after hours, she is pitching special seat belts and venison-jerky treats to a room of the curious over coffee and cookies. The group coos over colorful piles of chewable rubber and fuzzy toys, and a 7-year-old girl clings to a teddy bear with a "heartbeat." Despite the grade-schooler's enthusiasm, however, the toys are intended for a different breed of child: pets...
...context of inevitable (although manageable) friction between India and China, recent actions by the U.S. are, well, curious. Two weeks ago, in briefings in Washington and New Delhi, senior American officials went out of their way to state that it was now a U.S. goal to "help India become a major power in the 21st century." This, said one official, was a "highly significant development," and so it is. Taken together with the strengthening of the U.S.-Japan alliance that has been such a feature of the presidency of George W. Bush, Washington's strategic embrace of India...
...behind them they turn to see "the undead" rising from their graves. Rather than linger on this classic horror set-up Huizenga instead abruptly shifts the scene to bison on the plains. Though at first taken as a visual non sequitur, this peculiar juxtaposition signals one of Huizenga's curious shifts in time...