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...need to add a broader point to news stories and thus give them more impact, and the focus on the female sex as a whole triggered by the women’s rights movement.After four years on The Crimson, I understand the desire to try to explain subtle social changes to readers. One of the jobs of a journalist is to identify and explore societal undercurrents, especially if they are difficult to discern. But overzealously applied, this aim leads to the inflation or wholesale creation of trends in an effort to make individual incidents have some broader social significance.These trend...
...near the bottom in faculty availability, quality of instruction, and quality of advising within majors. This problem plagues most seniors graduating today and most of the underclassmen we leave behind.It wasn’t supposed to be this way; in fact, it’s a little hard to explain how it happened. We got to Harvard not just by overachieving in high school classes and activities but by forging relationships with our teachers. After all, recommendations are a key part of the college application. So why are we failing so miserably here?For many students, this stems in part...
...take refuge in my own solitude. Uninterrupted by the pressure of constant phone-checking or e-mailing, we are forced to breathe and think and rest. As it stands, it seems unnatural to want to be out of the loop for a bit; people seem unnerved if I explain that I went “missing” for a while because my phone was dead. From what precisely I was missing is unclear; I was enjoying myself by myself. Yet it was but decades ago that it wasn’t considered curious behavior to want to be alone...
...alumni after today’s ceremonies—have a great opportunity. Continue to apply pressure, but make it overt and conspicuous, like the pressure recently and effectively applied by the city government. And make it on the side of human rights and basic liberties. Write Harvard and explain to them that there’ll be no donations from you until it is clear the money will not be invested in companies or banks that do business with South Africa. Write Harvard and explain that, as women students, you felt cheated by the shortage of women professors...
...leadership of Hamas has long demonstrated a keen ability to stay onside with Palestinian public opinion. That may help explain why the movement - under pressure from Arab governments to make it easier to stand up to U.S. pressure to cut all financial aid - has been debating a move toward a de facto two-state solution. But if the anger generated on the streets by Abbas's referendum ultimatum is sufficiently widespread, Hamas may decide to call his bluff - because they believe they can win the issue where it counts, in the streets...