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...having fewer children. Families are healthier, and mortality rates have decreased. Children are learning much needed life skills. More important, there is now hope. Despite staggering odds, kids are thinking about the future. There is new respect for the rule of law and support for democracy. Communities that have fought for years have laid down their weapons. Children are learning common languages and even playing soccer together. Schools are not simply teaching the three Rs; they are also nation-building. Julia M. Bolz, Founder Journey with an Afghan School, SEATTLE...
...deride a centrist Republican and veteran for his rejection of your outlandish brand of conservatism but in the same breath you trivialize and mock the heroes who bravely fought against the tide of Nazism, something the “true conservative” you seek would never do. Of course, every argument can be reduced to comparisons with Hitler; most people just have the integrity and good sense not to do so. I would imagine that the Nazis enjoyed hunting, but I have not yet heard even the most dyed-in-the-wool liberals use this fact as an argument...
...that series...The Eagles entered last night’s game with the top-ranked power play in the nation. The Crimson didn’t give BC much of a chance to execute on the man-advantage, though, as Harvard only committed one penalty the entire game...Rogers fought hard to keep the puck in Harvard’s possession; he won 21 out of 32 faceoffs last night. —Staff writer Robert T. Hamlin can be reached at rhamlin@fas.harvard.edu...
Despite the fact that Faust began her research while still on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, her investigations frequently brought her to Harvard, where she studied the lives of graduates who had fought in the war. “One of the first times I walked into Memorial Hall, I looked up and saw the name of someone I knew quite well—someone whose papers I’d read, whose death I knew all about,” said Faust, who spoke beneath the seals of Harvard’s 11 schools that ring...
...Harvard men’s squash team (5-2, Ivy 2-1) had an exhausting and trying weekend of back-to-back Ivy League matches. In its first game, the Crimson fought hard and beat No. 9 Penn (4-4, 1-3 Ivy), 6-3, but it could not pull off a victory against No. 3 Princeton (9-1, Ivy 4-0) who won, 9-0. “With Penn we knew that we had the edge and the experience in our team,” Harvard coach Satinder Bajwa said. “But in terms of Princeton...