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...zealous visitors and overachieving seventh graders can buy a Harvard sweatshirt at the Coop and in T stations all over Boston, but there is something degrading about Harvard selling its name to a lingerie company. All we need now is for Starbucks to sell an exotic blend of coffee ground from beans that were grown deep within the Harvard Forest. If little hearts and dogs in every shade of pink don’t undermine the sanctity of the Harvard name, I don’t know what else would. It’s both disturbing and sad to know...
...standard issue bookshelf, desk, and bed frame are nowhere to be found. Instead, the heavy wooden desk has been replaced with a slim, steely silver work table. The standard bed frame has been put into storage. Batt has constructed a replacement frame that sits low to the ground...
...around the country, Harvard has made the best effort to hide its utilities. “You’re not going to see big mechanical equipment sitting around next to buildings,” he says. “It’s all going to be below ground.” Other utilitarian buildings will also be hidden from view: the new campus will not “have a lot of above-ground, ugly freestanding parking garages,” Gross says, “but will rather have significant parking structures underground covered over with green...
...Abukeshek and Pal-youth.org's next step is to formalize an online political mobilization plan for young Palestinians on the ground throughout the world. To this end, the organization is bringing together 150 Palestinians from 28 countries for a summit in Madrid in early November. "Everyone thought that bottom-up mobilization was dead [in America]." Says Dr. Nabulsi. "But they got a shock with Obama, and I see it also with the young Palestinians." And although he says he disagrees with Barack Obama's politics, particularly on maintaining an undivided Jerusalem, Abukeshek says he is encouraged by the influence the presidential...
...today Ma and his program are coming under increasing fire. On Oct. 25, hundreds of thousands protested against closer China ties at a Taipei rally organized by the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Last week, a Chinese official, Zhang Mingqing, fell to the ground as another mob of angry protesters pushed and shoved around him during his visit to a temple in the city of Tainan. The protesters specifically targeted Zhang, who, as vice-chairman of the Chinese organization responsible for cross-strait relations, was seen as a symbol of China's sway over Taiwan. Meanwhile, Ma has watched...