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...nearly as long as the U.S. has been a country, the question of who gets to be an American has stirred our passions and conflicted our values as few others have. In 1886, the same year that the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York harbor to the ideal of taking in the tired, the poor and the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, racist mobs rioted in Seattle and forced more than half the city's 350 Chinese onto a ship bound for San Francisco. That two chambers of Congress, both run by the same political party, should...
...before the Bush Administration started its war has at last come true: a country that the dictator Saddam held together with a brutal, tight grip is spinning out of control. People unaccustomed to democracy and split by long-lasting rivalries are unlikely to seek peaceful coexistence. Maybe the American ideal of a national melting pot enticed the Bush Administration into irresponsibly simplifying the complicated situation in Iraq. Hans Gerbig Gersthofen, Germany...
...just made sense to consolidate all that in Boston.” He said that the town had first approached him five years ago about a possible sale of the property, but the timing, with University President Lawrence H. Summers’ newly arrived in his post, was not ideal. Now, however, “it’s clear that the university’s priorities are focused on developing the land in Allston,” Cook said. “So, when the town reapproached me about a year ago and asked me if we would...
...many students, spring break is the ideal time to unwind and relax. But for the Harvard baseball team, it is the busiest week of the year...
...ideal math or science class would impart some broad, even practical (that word so loathsome in academic institutions) applications: I envision small courses, perhaps with emphasis on attendance and discussions or presentations, rather than equation sheets and problem sets. I don’t want to use a graphing calculator, or learn to chart population growth on an Excel spreadsheet, but I would like to understand the mechanics and ethics of stem cell research, or speak to a top professor about the intersection of demography and public health. These classes would be based less on minutiae and focus instead...