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...will take on my friends who argue for turning Iran into a giant parking lot. I wish more Harvard students were willing to challenge the structures of authority that govern our daily lives and limit our capacity to think beyond the status quo, to abandon image-consciousness in favor of making a meaningful political choice. I would never advocate remaining silent on issues of great importance, and there are certainly some opinions we are not meant to entertain, but shouldn’t we save our voices for unjust laws, not displeasing commencement speakers...
...clearer. "We need to break with the past," Borsellino told Time. "We have a system based on pure political patronage that makes people think they have to go ask 'Please' for something that should be their right." She believes there is a fundamental link between low-level favor swapping and Cosa Nostra's firm hold on Sicily. "Patronage is illegality," she said. "The Mafia's relationship with the economic and political world has slowed development, and impoverished Sicily." Borsellino says her opponent's decision to run despite the Mafia charges "sends a very bad message" to Sicilians. Cuffaro, a longtime...
...Still overall, Eppinger feels that the public exposure of combat trauma has implicit benefits. "It's worse if you don't show it," he says. "I'm all in favor of anything that tells the truth and lets people know what it's really like. It's better to have the knowledge before you sign up." Even if the people who were already over there might prefer to forget...
...want shock therapy, to destroy everything and build it back up, and to not waste time," he explains. "He is in favor of gradual reform. He is a utopian, leading a state like the wise man of a village. That's where I say, 'Life is more complicated than this.'" Seif al Islam is anxious to end speculation that he'll get his own chance to lead Libya some day. He rules out succeeding his father "100 percent," saying his goal is limited to encouraging a civil society as part of Libya's democratization process. No interest at all? "Zero...
...Council’s dilatory efforts at reform by opting out of the termbill fee (“Putting the U in UC,” editorial, May 12). While I fully support the views expressed in the rest of the article, and have been actively speaking out in favor of a two-committee UC, the target of a termbill protest would not be the UC, but innocent student groups and house committees. Many student groups, such as the Harvard College Democrats, derive a large part of their funding from the UC. Depriving them of this funding because...