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...most importantly, the responsibility in addressing this problem lies with us, as individuals. We—especially as members of Harvard University—should volunteer our time and energy to local causes. I have witnessed firsthand the awe that the name Harvard University inspires in communities and community leaders. The name and mystique of Harvard invokes thoughts of what was previously unthinkable. For example, in Biloxi, organizations that had given up on "impossible" projects suddenly became much more invigorated about the project’s prospects just knowing that Harvard students would be volunteering their time. By offering...
...truth for immigrants in the real world. Central Americans who leave their home countries to find work in South America are confronted with vast linguistic differences between their respective regional versions of Spanish and those practiced in South America. This communication challenge, as I had the chance to observe firsthand last semester in Argentina, doesn’t do them any favors while they attempt to assimilate into their new communities and put food on the table...
...houses and on videocassette. There the path to wisdom led not from innocence but from noncommittal hipness. James Woods, the movies' definitive Sidney Sleaze, plays a renegade war correspondent, a self-proclaimed weasel with an itchy social conscience. In El Salvador (and, climactically, back in the States), he learns firsthand of atrocity and duplicity in the name of law. Because the protagonist is knowing instead of naive, Salvador never slips into the haranguing righteousness of Platoon. If Salvador nonetheless seems a smaller film, this is because it is content to catalog the sins of power; they do not accumulate dramatically...
Carlucci has seen firsthand the risks involved in covert actions. While he was at the CIA during the Carter Administration, the agency ran a secret operation to infiltrate and destabilize Marxist-ruled South Yemen. It ended in the execution of twelve agency operatives...
...overcome the obstacles that modern sexism presents: those that half of Harvard’s student body will likely face. Harvard has been trying, with limited success, to confront the problem through efforts such as the new Women’s Center. But a female president’s firsthand knowledge of how to overcome such obstacles would make her the best-equipped candidate to lead Harvard in promoting gender equality. She would also provide a strong role model for students, and perhaps help to boost the number of tenured FAS women professors, who currently make up less than...