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College administrators raised the stakes yesterday in their confrontation with the Undergraduate Council, freezing all UC funds until the council ends its party grant program and threatening to establish their own grant-giving system if the UC fails to comply...
College administrators raised the stakes yesterday in their confrontation with the Undergraduate Council, freezing all UC funds until the council ends its party grant program and threatening to establish their own grant-giving system if the UC fails to comply. Bluntly calling into question the council’s commitment to preventing underage drinking, Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II told UC officials yesterday that Harvard will not give the council any money to fund a public event by a student group or HoCo unless there is a Beverage Authorization Team present to enforce the legal drinking...
...credibility he has built on being a man of action. That means the highest-stakes showdown of his administration is all but inevitable. "If he achieves this reform by overcoming big protests, he'll have satisfied the 50% of public opinion approving the measure, thrill fellow conservatives, and re-establish himself as the formidable leader who inspires the French," says Reynié. "If he fails, he's in serious trouble. The reform movement will be stalled; the left revived, conservative rivals will be emboldened to challenge him, and public respect for him blown apart. But there's no going back...
...Despite its apparent advantages over hereditary/religious orders of earlier ages, this notion of “superior intelligences” cannot escape its artificiality. The inequality of intelligences can never be an objectively verifiable fact of human life; the metrics that establish intelligence are necessarily steeped in arbitrariness. Especially when referring to political knowledge, as “leaders” must, how can anyone claim superiority? How can one possibly understand the narratives, struggles, and hopes of the people “better” than they themselves? Indeed, much like the frenzied efforts colonial intellectuals devoted to constructing...
...death-row inmates in Benetton ads. But this time, the message is also targeted at the very industry that is selling the goods. The problem of eating disorders has long plagued the fashion world, with the proliferation of super-thin models whom critics say not only harm themselves, but establish unhealthy role models for young female consumers. Criticism peaked last year when a 21-year-old Brazilian model died from the effects of anorexia...