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...Lawrence H. Summers is well aware of Harvard’s military legacy and supports veterans on campus. “All of us at the University should be grateful to those who defend our country and the freedoms that make it possible for an institution like Harvard to exist,” he wrote in an e-mailed statement. “Since the Viet Nam war, differences over the policy choices of elected officials have sometimes led to unfortunate cleavages between the military and the academic community. I believe repairing these rifts is of great importance...
...HIV/AIDS department at the World Health Organization implored students to participate in a cross-university effort to make medicine more affordable for the poor at a packed event yesterday. “There are 10 million deaths each year from conditions for which effective, affordable prevention and treatment exist,” said Jim Yong Kim, who is now chair of the department of social medicine at the Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Partners in Health, an organization devoted to improving health care for the poor. Kim’s talk, entitled “Missing Medicines: Making...
...meantime, we must stop pretending climate change doesn’t exist. And we can’t rely on the environment to do the tough work...
Similarly, it is extremely useful for a black person to try to understand the problems and struggles that may exist in the lives of white people. While white people should not get defensive about race to the point that they dismiss and overlook the racial inequalities that exist in our society, black people cannot write off the dilemmas that white people face in their lives as well. There are many white people who suffer from the ills of poverty and discrimination, and these issues must be confronted as well...
Essentially, the group continues in a well-established New England tradition of masturbatory affirmation of the region’s alleged superiority to “a nation of crazy.” While this particular Facebook group appears to exist on a somewhat joking level, the entire gist of its premise permeates this area of the country so fervently that I’m pretty sure most New Englanders do profess to live in the last “bastion of sanity...