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...chance, and really see what’s been around you for four years. Once you do that, you can proudly put on your suit, jump on a plane, or buy books for graduate school to begin to fulfill the legacy of excellence that you nurtured at our dear, imperfect Harvard. Monica M. Clark ’06, who was a Crimson executive editor in 2005, is a history and literature concentrator in Currier House...

Author: By Monica M. Clark, | Title: Harvard, the College We Love to Hate | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...subcommittee was pressed for time or did not fully understand the size and scope of each organization. By all indications, however, the subcommittee was acting in good faith—trying to assign student space to the groups that needed it most—even if the result was imperfect. Yet, even though the assignment of space fell short of our expectations, all is not lost for the ambitious project. The subcommittee says it will reevaluate its assignments next year, so these misallocations of space may soon be rectified. We hope that the subcommittee evaluates the application in a more...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: A Tango in Hilles | 5/19/2006 | See Source »

...from Indonesians worried about the country's moral direction. "The availability of pornography has reached alarming levels," says Juniwati Masjchun Sofwan, head of the Committee to Eradicate Pornography, an independent lobbying group. "It has become a social disease." But critics of the proposed law say that it is an imperfect antidote. Says Bambang Harymurti, chief editor of Tempo, a newsmagazine that has covered the issue in depth: "The problem is not that we don't have any laws but rather their enforcement. The bill allows anyone to enforce the law, not just the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia's Skin Wars | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...much for environmental collapse happening in so many places at once has at last awakened much of the world, particularly the 141 nations that have ratified the Kyoto treaty to reduce emissions--an imperfect accord, to be sure, but an accord all the same. The U.S., however, which is home to less than 5% of Earth's population but produces 25% of CO2 emissions, remains intransigent. Many environmentalists declared the Bush Administration hopeless from the start, and while that may have been premature, it's undeniable that the White House's environmental record--from the abandonment of Kyoto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Warming Heats Up | 3/26/2006 | See Source »

...pity is that even in its current, imperfect state, NAGPRA can work (to date, about 30,000 remains and half a million funerary objects have been returned to tribes), provided that everyone turns down the heat and tries to reach consensus. However much knowledge scientists pry from the Kennewick bones, the goodwill lost and the contentious precedents set may make the next generation of NAGPRA cases a lot less friendly than the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legal Battle: Archaeology: Who Should Own the Bones? | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

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