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...latest catchphrase on college campuses: the civil-military gap. With Millennials embracing national service in droves, more students around the country are questioning the Vietnam-era dogma that drew a bright line between the Peace Corps and the War Corps. Borrowing a page from the Greek historian Thucydides, who observed that "a nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors has its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools," many of today's students are pushing for Sparta to make more inroads into Athens. By uniting the best students and the best...
...young men with hoods pulled to their eyebrows and scarves around their mouths stood behind Syntagma Square, the main square of Athens not far from the Greek parliament. The violence had just been ratcheted up in the continuing protests that have rocked Greece since the fatal police shooting of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, 15, on Dec. 6. No one is certain yet why the riots continue to flare up. And, on Thursday, the two youths approached by TIME were not providing any clues either. Asked to explain why they were waging their violent campaign against the police the pair answered with...
...fewer poinsettia will grace the winged feet of a forlorn Hermes in Gordon Hall this year, as the Medical School’s staffers look to ring in the holidays with some year-end cheer. Stripped of its usual floral retinue, the messenger of the Greek gods seems to bear some sobering news: pressed by an unprecedented financial crisis, formerly lavish traditions will be giving way to a frugal conservatism as Harvard’s party planners across face tighter budget constraints this year.While administrators look to cope with an endowment savaged by losses, schools across the University are doing...
...Reynié says there's another feature shared by virtually all European nations that also played a role in the Greek riots, and could inspire similar action elsewhere: The resentment of a relatively small generation being asked to finance the pensions of a huge wave of Baby-Boomers headed into retirement at the very time good jobs for well-educated young people are drying up. "This is a generation feeling it's being sacrificed for ones that came before it, and are looking at their economic and employment future with despair," Reynié says. "The situation is worse in southern...
...intensely observing the slightest sign of revolt," wrote Laurent Joffrin in Friday's edition of Libération - whose cover featured French students waving their fists in protest over the headline "After Greece: Can France Ignite?" "It's a wise precaution: divided, anguished, disillusioned, France has a Greek profile...