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...record. But officials familiar with the CIA's operations say at least nine of the top 20 high-value al-Qaeda targets identified last fall have been killed by drone strikes, along with dozens of lesser figures. Many bases and safe houses have been destroyed. On the other hand, Pakistani officials say the majority of strikes have either missed their targets or, worse, killed innocent civilians. The News, a Pakistani daily, reported recently that 60 strikes since early 2006 had killed 687 civilians and only 14 al-Qaeda leaders, a ratio few Pakistanis would find acceptable. The campaign, in fact...
...academic method. The Core demands familiarity with “the ways in which we gain knowledge;” it tries to discipline young minds into using various academic language and concepts, into thinking in “educated” terms. Gen Ed, on the other hand, aims to “connect in an explicit way what students learn at Harvard to life beyond Harvard” such that it is revealed “how everything we teach in the arts and sciences relates to their lives.” The Core sees education...
...fall of 1959, 230 hand-selected Harvard men moved into Quincy House as the original occupants of the College’s first contemporary residence. Breaking with the architectural tradition of the initial seven Houses, Quincy’s concrete, high-rise exterior and novelty imbued its initial inhabitants with the freedom to build an interior House character from the ground up. As one of Quincy’s original 150 sophomores, Robert J. Gordon ’62 recalls the sense of pomp and privilege surrounding the newly-constructed eighth House. “In Quincy, we were proud...
...undergraduates were wary that the school’s interest in student creativity would actually hamper it. “We were somewhat afraid that the interest in theater on the part of the university would lead to control and the marginalization of student directed shows. On the other hand, after working in Agassiz, who would not want a chance at those facilities that the Loeb offered?” said Julius L. Novick ’60, a long-time theater critic and Professor of Dramatic Studies...
...ceremony on June 7 for a ring. While most undergraduates still tremble at the idea of marriage, Kumar said she never had that “phobia” and that she realized almost immediately that Aggarwal was the right man for her. She says he, on the other hand, “took a little bit more convincing.” “It’s not so much about the timing but about the person,” she said. “I cannot imagine spending my life in a better way than with Neil...