Word: focusing
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...moments give me an immense sense of hope. We strive to show the interconnectivity of politics. It’s not just that we want to transform Harvard. We hope that human beings are being transformed. One of the most important lessons I’ve learned is to focus on the kid who comes every week and to find hope in that. It gives me a lot of hope, not just for ending the war, but for democracy and world justice...
...Harvard undergraduates, Smith referred to the “Committee to review the Undergraduate Council,” where previously the body had been called the Committee to Review the Role of the Student in College Governance. But Dowling said that he does not plan for the committee to focus exclusively on the UC. The committee will meet for the first time this morning and on alternate Wednesdays afterward for the remainder of the semester and likely into the fall, according to Dowling. Dowling said he and UC President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 are also planning...
...been vetted in various ways by your peers, who has discussed this topic broadly with those peers, and who has our confidence,” he wrote to Sundquist. Sundquist and UC Vice President Randall S. Sarafa ’09 made Ad Board reform a central focus of their campaign for the Council’s top spots in December, citing a lack of transparency and student representation as two of its major flaws. Last semester, the UC formed its Ad Board review committee, which includes both UC representatives and other students, to seek a student voice...
...Security in Iraq cannot be achieved solely by dominating military targets. A more effective approach would focus on addressing the emotional roots of violence and cultivating conditions for peace. Two of the most fundamental emotional concerns for parties in a conflict are autonomy, the freedom to make decisions without imposition, and affiliation, a sense of belonging and connection. Depending on the extent to which these concerns are addressed, people can be driven toward cooperative or adversarial behavior...
...Matt Scherrer, a co-founder of the site, said that Beyond Orders’ humanitarian focus fills a gap in the U.S. military’s presence in Iraq...