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...with each acronym comes another bracketed e-mail list.True Love Revolution—yet another of Harvard’s cornucopia of organizations—periodically hosts forums for those who feel unfulfilled. But who has time to feel unfulfilled anymore? You can’t be the founder and president of the Harvard Throat-Singing To Youth In Hospitals Group (HTSTYIHG) and feel unfulfilled, or if you do, you should try e-mailing the list more often. Indeed, Harvard students’ fetish for extracurricular commitment of the e-mail variety may be linked to their distaste...
...threats of punishment may not be enough. Harsh Agarwal, co-founder of the Coalition to Uproot Ragging, says the practice will stop only if there's a cultural shift in colleges. The Indian Supreme Court committee agrees, calling for human rights instruction for younger students in addition to a widespread public awareness campaign. "The biggest hurdle is no one believes ragging is a social evil," Agarwal says. "When an entire society believes in this, how is enforcement of the law possible...
...Musharraf's declaration of a state of emergency must have made Pakistan's founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, turn over in his grave. Many people are demonstrating against the tyrant Musharraf. It is time that all Pakistanis stand for a democratic Pakistan and work hand in hand to fight the evils that are keeping them apart. Cajetan Peter D'Souza, Mumbai...
Among the peakists, war and economic breakdown are favorite themes. They figure that cheap oil is the essential fuel of modern capitalism, which will founder without it. A more hopeful take is that innovation is the essential fuel of modern capitalism and that high oil prices will drive rapid advances in conservation and alternative energy. Either way, the beginning of the end of the oil era may be upon us, well ahead of schedule...
...rights, the Eden Project should have been a commercial disaster, as even its founder admits. "All environmental-science centers go bust because they're boring as s___," Smit says. But Eden wasn't boring, and it didn't go bust. The park has pulled in more than 9 million visitors since it opened, and it's still one of Britain's top attractions, more popular than the Tower of London. It helps that Eden is visually stunning. Visitors descend into the former clay hole, now landscaped and studded with native vegetation, to arrive at the main attraction: two honeycombed domes...