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...sophomore campaign.“These are hands-down the best [low-post players] who have ever played at Harvard under my coaching,” Delaney-Smith said. “They’re all power inside players. You’re going to have to defend that.”A bevy of talent and size in the post gives Delaney-Smith options she didn’t have even two years ago, when the Crimson was thin in the middle and standout forward Reka Cserny ’05 preferred playing outside of the paint...
...equal. While Islamic fundamentalists intimidate the West by manufacturing outrage against novels, cartoons, lectures, essays and theater productions, the U.N. complies with Muslim prohibitions against speaking freely about Islam. The freedom to think and express oneself-and even mock authority figures-is the bedrock of Western values, and to defend this freedom it appears necessary to disband the U.N. and develop other international and regional organizations. Jiti Khanna Vancouver...
...event at Harvard Hall, Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs Stephen P. Rosen ’74 said that the U.S. should focus on both deterring terrorist groups from using nuclear weapons as well as developing the ability to defend itself in case of a nuclear attack...
...expression. While Islamic fundamentalists intimidate the West by manufacturing outrage against novels, cartoons, lectures, essays and theater productions, the U.N. complies with Muslim prohibitions against speaking freely about Islam. The freedom to think and express oneself - and even mock authority figures - is the bedrock of Western values, and to defend this freedom, it appears necessary to disband the U.N. and develop other international and regional organizations. Jiti Khanna Vancouver Cutting Our Losses Leslie Gelb's viewpoint "The Dominoes That Did Not Fall" [Oct. 23] argued that, after the U.S. defeat in Vietnam, "the dominoes did not fall." Well, they didn...
Still, the question is worth consideration, at the very least because our silence concedes the point. Since Plato exiled poets from his mythical Republic, humanists have exerted themselves to defend and expound the merits of poetry. Until the 19th century, the consensus was that literature was proper for its moral utility and its ability to impart ethical lessons through delightful language. This line of thought has gone out of vogue, both for aesthetic reasons and because it has become abundantly clear that there is nothing particularly ennobling about high culture itself. After all, Alex from “A Clockwork...