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...midst of the bustle of the academic term, it’s often easy to forget that Harvard’s community encompasses more than students, faculty, and administrators. The hot meals that we are served three times a day, the clean halls and bathrooms that we enjoy throughout the academic year, and the meticulously manicured lawns that we walk over in the fall and spring too easily slip below the radar. Perhaps most easily taken for granted, however, is the basic safety that we all enjoy—the safety provided by the security guards employed by AlliedBarton Security...
Shocker: Kanye West, as an adolescent, liked porn. His mother will reveal as much in an upcoming book that the NEW YORK POST has giddily excerpted: "I'll never forget the day he took the X-rated magazine to school [and] was passing it around for the other boys to see, and the teacher caught him." SCORE...
...revere" killers. But in response to his doubts about people recalling Ted Bundy's victims, those of us who were at Florida State University in the late '70s have not forgotten Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman. Likewise, I doubt that those who survived that day at Virginia Tech will forget their classmates and teachers. It is the media that keep the killers' names alive while those who were there and those who care remember the victims...
From the plush vantage of 21st century suburbia, it is easy to forget how much real, substantive progress has been made in relatively little time. Due to advances in sanitation, medicine, and education, life expectancy worldwide has dramatically increased in the past two centuries from 30 years in 1800 to 67 years today, while infant mortality rates have plummeted from 21.7 percent to 0.6 percent in 2000. Diseases like small pox, tuberculosis, and syphilis that once ravaged the Western world have virtually disappeared here. And the development of scientific farming methods, factories, electricity, mass transportation, and even computers has increased...
After he bravely battled illness at the end of his life - and now as he heads toward sainthood in the after-life - it's easy to forget that Pope John Paul II was widely and sometimes loudly criticized earlier in his pontificate. The jabs from inside and outside the Catholic Church often related to his steadfast opposition to abortion rights, refusal to sanction condom distribution in AIDS-plagued Africa and other stands linked to his traditionalist view of doctrine...