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...very least, you’d think he’d have a long-term plan: law school, probably, then the inevitable promotion to Washington. He might have an internship lined up for the summer on Capitol Hill, or an entry-level position at the Attorney General??€™s office...
...here in Harvard’s northern woods. Our dining halls boast the best cooks (check the survey), we have the Pfoho Grille, and now crimsonfood.com delivers right to our doors. In the Quad, we have a higher frequency of singles—and obviously larger rooms in general??€”than any of the River Houses (with the exception of Mather’s lovely prison cells). There must be some correlation between being satiated and well-housed and Quadlings’ athletic skills, evidently: The Straus Cup record of seven consecutive wins remains in the Quad with Cabot...
While the Chilean military welcomed its former leader home in 2000 with a full-dress greeting party, others were not so warm to his return, and efforts to try Pinochet domestically for his alleged abuses began almost immediately. Ever since, the General??€™s manifold layers of protection have been slowly stripped away. First to go was his senatorial immunity: in August 2000, Chile’s Supreme Court stripped Gen. Pinochet of the protection he enjoyed as a Senator-for-life. There remained, however, the pesky issue of Pinochet’s health: after a judge placed...
...Augusto Pinochet is brought to trial, as believers in human rights must hope that he ultimately is, it is imperative that his trial happens in an atmosphere ripe with fairness and justice, the very things that were denied to Chileans during the General??€™s rule. As Professor Jacqueline Bhabha, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard and executive director of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies, wrote in an e-mail: “Process is critically important to human rights, and while impunity is fundamentally undermining so is revenge. If someone is too demented...
...suggests, I think, that the other kinds of selling out we have dreaded—getting a corporate job, abandoning our elliptical late-night conversations in favor of more adult modes of communication, making enough money to eat something other than Easy Mac, buckling down and growing up in general??€”may be both less painful and less noticeable than we had anticipated. Selling out may, it seems, produce nothing more than a brief shock of unpleasantness. And then it is as though nothing had ever happened; seduced by the charms and very real benefits of having sold...