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...planning process, the Committee has limited its usage of paper, mobilizing e-mail and Facebook. The Committee even plans to follow up with their classmates in the hopes that they will change their habits based on what they learned at the reunion to offset the reunion’s usage of carbon dioxide by next year...
...know when to follow the rule of law and when not? The Constitution gives no answer valid for all circumstances but instead, through the separation of powers, sets up a debate between the three branches of government, each of which has its typical argument against the other two. Congress, whether Democratic or Republican, tends to support the rule of law—after all, it makes the laws. The President—and there have been strong Presidents in both parties—tends to see the defects of law, since law is always easier to make than apply. Sometimes...
...father dropped out of high school and his mother did not finish college. Though his father lacked formal education, Greene said, he was very intellectual and was “captivated by ideas.” Greene’s older brother left the University of Wisconsin to follow the Hare Krishna movement. Despite their different paths, Greene said his brother’s interests are very similar to his own.“We both ask the big questions, but he looks at it from a very different point of view.”HOME AT HARVARDThough Greene originally...
...reforms in higher education. We also expressed concern at the federal government’s inadequate response to the economic crisis’ effects on the Boston school system. Closer to campus, we lamented the continuing distortion of the SAT and its results and hoped that other universities would follow our lead and increase the percentage of their aid that is need-based. We noted several local debates in lower education that may hold greater significance in the future...
...student [who was] very serious about his education.” As Rosenthal took and enjoyed premed courses like Organic Chemistry, he still found it hard to let go of the idea of becoming a teacher. His father was a high school science teacher, and Rosenthal was tempted to follow in his father’s footsteps. But in Rosenthal’s junior year, his close friend William L. Dowling, Jr. ’59 died of leukemia. Dowling and Rosenthal lived one entryway apart in Dunster House. “In retrospect, it was one of the most...