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...Fourteen months after announcing that Harvard will launch its most ambitious capital campaign to date, University officials are drafting plans, meeting with top donors, and ramping up fundraising efforts during a “quiet phase” that’s anything but quiet...
Rather than end the season with the bitter taste of a fourteen-game slide, the Crimson derived a measure of dignity and a sense of hope for the year ahead from the frosh-powered victory...
...Republicans—who have long despised the “nation-building,” foreign aid, and public diplomacy that are vital to the war on terror—the party of foreign policy idealism? And since when are the Democrats—who authored the Fourteen Points, the New Freedom, the Marshall Plan, and NATO—the party of dictator-coddling realists? And most recently: the party that fails to pound Bush for dragging his feet on Darfur nearly as much as we pounded him for rushing into Iraq...
...very important to follow religious teachings in everyday life. Spiritually, "college is a time of flux," says Alexander Astin, the study's co--principal investigator. That leads to "a dramatic falling-off of religious participation during the undergraduate years." But a significant minority are holding fast to their faith. Fourteen percent put themselves in the "other Christian" category--dominated by the nondenominational Protestant churches that have proliferated across the U.S.--up from just 5% in 1989. And 26% of the students surveyed call themselves born-again Christians, which would be a natural constituency for religious-fellowship groups on campuses. Evangelical...
...much of Bergen-Belsen remains today. A 25-meter-high gray stone obelisk marks the site, rising above it like a baleful warning. Inscribed on its side is a singular commandment: EARTH CONCEAL NOT THE BLOOD SHED ON THEE! Fourteen long, low mounds of mass graves are marked simply, starkly: HERE LIE BURIED 1,000 BODIES; HERE LIE 2,500 BODIES. In 1975, then Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin walked among the neatly tended graves of Bergen-Belsen and remarked bitterly, "It is so green that it is making me angry...