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...Staff writer Joseph P. Flood can be reached at flood@fas.harvard.edu...
...Despite Summers’ assurances, the only improvement made in faculty-student interaction has been an increase in the number of freshman seminars offered. And while the expansion of this program is certainly laudable, the reforms began well before Summers’ term. Instead of the flood of newly-tenured faculty that many had hoped for, the past year has seen the departure of several of Harvard’s most famous professors...
...weekend parties, she says, ’Cliffies often felt stiff romantic competition from the droves of Wellesley women who would flood the campus...
...committee also called the Administration on its political ace card--its handling of terrorism--by passing legislation that would put the Office of Homeland Security under congressional oversight. And Lieberman's long-ignored proposal for a commission to investigate Sept. 11 became a rallying point for Democrats in the flood of revelations that the FBI had missed clues on terrorism. Within the party, all this seems to be playing well. In Arizona, an early 2004 primary state, Democratic spokeswoman Dianna Jennings says, "There's a sense among party activists that what he's doing on the 9/11 stuff is right...
...obscenely high U.S. murder rate.) Iran may still be on the U.S. short list of states that support terrorism, but it also supports the most vital national art cinema of the past decade. Last year every Iranian film seemed to be about Afghanistan and its flood of emigrants into the Islamic Republic. This year another threatening neighbor, Iraq, is the focus of anxiety. Dariush Mehrjui's Bemani tells of a young Iraqi woman who befriends an Iranian soldier and is beheaded by her outraged father. But the film doesn't blame only the Iraqis. Two Iranian fathers beat their daughters...