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...They don't make them like that anymore, of course, and there is a conventional explanation why. In the 50 years after World War II, the state of Europe demanded men and women with ideas vital enough to remake a broken Continent and rebuild its broken economies. That work fit for heroes, one might suppose, is done. Europe is prosperous and free; it needs leaders less than managers. Yet if the last few weeks proved anything, it is surely that this comfortable idea is an illusion. Europe faces urgent challenges: integrating its growing Muslim population into civil society, coping simultaneously...
...effect of Harvard’s divestment decisions, however, hinge on their place in a broader debate. Powerful as it is, Harvard alone cannot bring down the militias, or apartheid, or the tobacco industry. Harvard’s decisions have to fit within a broader movement. On apartheid, Gulf oil, and tobacco, other investors followed suit, and Harvard’s move carried large public weight. So far, Harvard’s divestment from Sudan has been largely neglected externally, and progress on Darfur has been slow. But at least as far as PetroChina is concerned, Harvard has done what...
...Ivies had a postseason tournament, a team following the first path would get upset in the conference tourney far more often than one following the second. And that might be enough incentive to cause runaway league champs to follow that other path.By Saturday night, Penn will likely be fit that runaway profile, but the question remains, in the absence of a conference tournament, which path it will decide to take.—Staff writer Michael R. James can be reached at mrjames@fas.harvard.edu...
...Basically how it works,” says David S. Jewett ’08, a member of the three-man organizing committee, explaining one of the evening’s activities, “is you ask how many marshmallows can you fit in your mouth...
...Harvard’s undergraduate population this semester. His message—that studying what works is more productive than dwelling on what doesn’t—is reaching a lot of people. Some would call him and his disciples a movement. Others think they might fit in better at a guidance counselor’s office...