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There is a problem in the Independence Ballroom of the Sheraton Boston Hotel. There are over 1400 high-school students, participants in the Harvard Model United Nations [HMUN], watching Ambassador-at-large Elliot Richardson '41 try to deliver a keynote address on the convention's first night. Something is wrong and you can tell it. The people on the dais -- Harvard students who organize the model UN -- are shifting uncomfortably in their chairs. The audience isn't doing much better. Richardson sways and launches into a five-minute barrage of questions -- "What would you like...
...theory seems to be that if you can squeeze some coordinated effort out of unruly high-school students, you will, after some Kennedy School training, be able to perform the same magic on unruly bureaucrats...
Pihl said he did not know why Expository Writing -- ten years ago at the bottom of the list in popularity -- now attracts such high enrollment. Many high-school graduates planning to matriculate at Harvard next year take Expos S-17, but high-school students account for only a little more than half of Expos enrollment, Pihl said...
Anarchy, or something very near to it, has been a way of life at Harvard since 1969, when the school's Undergraduate Council put itself out of business. Lacking a student government, the droves of high-school council presidents who every year flock to Cambridge have had to content themselves with a system of student-faculty advisory committees--a system that grants students no real institutional power, and only the most deferential voice, in the affairs of the Colleges...
...does not appear particularly foreboding: two chessboards dominate the lacquered shield, overshadowing the more traditional military insignias. Nor does the name beneath the plaque sound too threatening: the Studies Analysis and Gaming Agency (SAGA), you think, sounds like a fun place, perhaps the headquarters for a bunch of pudgy high-school kids who spend their afternoons at board games while their mesomorphic friends are outside playing touch football. But then you think again about the surroundings, which are the Pentagon, and about the people behind the door, who are generals and admirals and Cabinet members, and about the object...