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...global forces—international markets, developing regions, cultural and religious exchange—is a vital intellectual pursuit. This eye towards globalization has helped shape a proposal of general education that emphasizes world cultures and interdisciplinary study. In light of this focus, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) should begin to address what has become one of its most serious deficiencies: the study of South Asia. The study of modern South Asia—its politics, economics, culture, and history—has become a profoundly important academic endeavor, especially in light of the region?...
...Staff writer Christina G. Vangelakos can be reached at cvangel@fas...
Flash forward to Harvard in 2006. The United States is at war again, but the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has only one course in specific military matters—Government 1730: “War and Politics.” We have the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, but that is more focused on grand foreign policy machinations rather than military realities on the ground. The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government is on the right track—good liberals that they are, they’ve managed...
...crucial time in America. Military scholarship has now largely been outsourced to conservative think-tanks in Washington, which have shoddier standards and are also more likely to be belligerent. Harvard has a natural niche to fill here, and it must begin by incorporating military science research into FAS in a significant...
Harvard returned to a pre-e-mail age yesterday when the Faculty of Arts and Sciences servers malfunctioned. Users of IMAP e-mail programs such as Eudora, Outlook, and Thunderbird notified FAS Computing Services of access problems as early as 9:30 a.m., and all FAS servers crashed around 10:45 a.m. for nearly seven hours, according to Supervisor of Residential Computing Erin Nettifee. Students could not visit any FAS Web sites and were able to access their FAS e-mail only intermittently throughout the day until the system was fully restored by 6:30 p.m. The Computer Services staff...