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...hurricanes, earthquakes, disease germs, speeding bullets, they are all equal opportunity offenders. They have no way of knowing whether it's a good person or a bad person in their path. In fact, there's a passage in the Talmud [Jewish scripture] that says that God's justice would demand that certain things not happen, but nature is not just and those things happen. TIME: Does that separate you, to some extent, from the Orthodox Jewish community? Kushner: I get a better reception from Mormons than I do from the Orthodox Jews. It's precisely because of that point. They...
...Well, the sandwich position does command the respect of the Harvard community, but it’s lonely at the top. I hope I’ll someday be serving as webmaster@fas or keeping up with the demand of my.harvard.edu...
...freshmen. Or maybe its goal is to spark debate at any cost. When one student criticized the Guide and its methods on an open e-mail list, Guide editor Adaner Usmani ’08 replied, “[T]he publication of the disguide has prompted you to demand more discussion of these issues. [M]ission accomplished.” But whichever way the Guide spins it, it cannot escape the fact that its methods are both disingenuous and damaging to constructive debate.The Guide’s first failure is that its overarching rhetoric manages to undermine...
Harvard’s experts are in demand because the University’s extensive infrastructure, including the MTA Project at the Kennedy School of Government and the Harvard Negotiation Project at Harvard Law School, has been geared toward resolving the stalled talks and nuclear problem in North Korea since long before Monday’s approximately half-kiloton nuclear blast...
...what is to be done? The solution has two parts. First, the English and VES departments should offer more introductory level courses (as well as more offerings in general) in areas such as creative writing, acting, and the visual arts. Clearly, the demand for such classes is substantial, as indicated by the high turnout at the introductory sessions. The College should consequently seek to meet the demand of its students by offering more courses and hiring more faculty—a path some in the departments seem willing to take if only their colleagues would agree. Additionally, the Office...