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This September, returning students were confronted with an odd juxtaposition of facts: Harvard administrators were settling into the comfort of an unprecedented economic boom while other members of our community, the security guards, were told to face "harsh economic realities" and were de facto forced out. While the University endowment has ballooned to over $14 billion, while the Capital Campaign has exceeded its $2.1 billion goal by $225 million and while University President Neil L. Rudenstine has informed every Crimson reader that Harvard has achieved "a goal greater than any other institution of higher learning in the history...
...same time, the harsh conditions imposed on Germany at Versailles--including the infamous "war guilt" clause--clearly led to the resurgence of German nationalism. That the United States did not ratify the agreement shows nothing more than that the Senate in 1920 recognized a bad treaty when it saw one. Perhaps if our European allies had followed our example and tried to work out a more equitable agreement, the catastrophes of the subsequent two decades might have been avoided...
...harsh reality is that today's society advocates promiscuity by removing responsibility for the consequences, and creates a double-standard for scientific knowledge by promoting one theory over another. Everyone likes to complain about the ills of society without offering any answers, but when religious groups offer their answer, it's automatically the wrong...
...could be that O.J. Simpson's acquittal from the charge of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman actually knocked some sense into the man. Or maybe it was the harsh verdict of his civil trial, which ordered Simpson to pay over $33.5 million in damages. But in truth, Simpson probably just didn't want to have another dead woman on his hands...
Still, for all of Branch's dreams, Raman says MSA must face some harsh realities...