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...Maybe it was inevitable that the movement he had done so much to create would grow up, stretch out, even rebel against his strong paternal supervision. Part of this was the much chronicled disillusionment of some Christian soldiers who had duly marched onto the field, gone door to door and pew to pew in search of new voters, placed their faith in politics and politicians to promote their most precious values, only to find those values were a currency that could be traded away behind closed doors. After six years with a born-again evangelical in the White House...
...security guards does impact the greater Harvard community, but its direct impact on undergraduates is negligible. In choosing to involve itself in what amounts to a wage dispute between one of the University’s contractors and their employees, the UC marginalized itself and it opened the door to taking stances on other political issues only tangentially related to Harvard undergraduates.Despite the fact that UC members are elected on the basis of their ideas for the campus and not their political views, it was not too long ago that the UC found itself pontificating on everything from Chinese human...
...wonderful to be a filmmaker in Paris! Every morning you step out the door into the greatest standing set in the world. It's not just the places all of us tourists know - the Tuileries, the Eiffel Tower, the Latin Quarter - it's the anonymous streets where the food in the humblest bistro makes your mouth water, the women are always pert and smartly dressed, the men rueful and wise. Everything and everyone merely awaits further transformation by the cinematographer's glamorizing light. Even a sad story does not seem quite so doleful in this context...
...hunger strike to support the demands of Harvard’s security guards, I think the protest is misguided. Basic economics dictates that the more each worker is paid, the fewer workers will be hired. Raising the wages of security guards who already have jobs could shut the door on the poor and unemployed...
...great experience as a captain this year,” Kerr said. “He was very adamant that we adhere to all the standards that Harvard represents.” Altchek, who prepared the statement beforehand and presented it at the closed-door meeting, declined to identify the names of the captains who participated in the meeting. The statement was unanimously endorsed. —Staff writer Malcom A. Glenn can be reached at mglenn@fas.harvard.edu...