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Asked to describe himself in three words, the classics concentrator-cum-Undergraduate Council presidential candidate takes a few moments of reflection and replies, “A human being.” Roger G. Waite ’10-’11 offered only a few words more, “To the best of my knowledge, I am a human being.” Then, he leaned back in his chair, silent...
...massive scale. Collective intelligence is a potentially groundbreaking development in cyberspace, allowing community organizers and advertising firms alike to tailor their message for the broader public. While we have no qualms with the MIT experiment—which is clearly a well-designed research project conducted with human subjects who have provided informed consent—we believe that it is time for policymakers and concerned citizens to begin a careful and informed dialogue regarding the new role of privacy rights in the 21st century. Given the recent and explosive growth of social-networking websites and the increasingly broad abilities...
...Sung-il and his son Kim Jong-il, told her harrowing story to a group of students in Boylston Hall Friday evening in an event aimed at improving the conditions facing North Korean defectors. Jo’s story came as the culmination of a week of human rights-focused events staged by Harvard Human Rights in North Korea (HRINK). As part of the proceedings, students at Friday’s event were asked to sign a petition to the United Nations urging the international organization to acknowledge North Korean defectors as refugees. Currently those fleeing North Korea face difficulties...
...stab another prisoner in the neck. And everyone kept walking. Bright, who was wrongly convicted of second-degree murder in 1976 and spent the subsequent 27 years in prison, spoke before a crowd of undergraduates as part of Voices of Innocence, an event organized by the Harvard College Human Rights Advocates to commemorate the 60th anniversary of human rights’ universal declaration.Bright, in addition to two other exonerated prisoners who spoke during the event, said they were angry about the lost time they spent behind bars but stressed that forgiveness has helped them overcome their traumatic experiences...
Kennedy School Professor Samantha Power has travelled the globe interviewing the victims, culprits, and arbitrators of human rights atoricities. Yet, she found the inspiration for her Pultizer Prize-winning work,“A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,” right here in Cambridge. With the encouragement of University Professor Stanley Hoffmann, what started as a 30-page assignment grew into an 80-page term paper and ultimately a book. Power, along with dozens of other scholars, paid tribute to Hoffmann’s influential career at an 80th birthday celebration held...