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...only if they involve and inform themselves in a serious way.If students fail to do this, Harvard will be stuck in a culture of unawareness. If students want change on campus, it is their responsibility to be informed. Although Summers’ resignation turned out to be a welcome impetus for student involvement, it should not take a campus-shaking event to rouse most students. When the Harvard Corporation formally begins its search for a new president, for example, students should demand a role in the search process.Harvard students owe it to themselves to take a consistent role in campus...
...Bush Administration is increasingly trying to paint him as a region-destabilizing dictator. This month, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the U.S. needs to form a "united front" against Chavez as he seeks re-election later this year. Statements like this one have given Venezuela even more impetus to regard the FAA?s continued stance as political. And this latest fiasco may just be indicative of larger conflicts ahead...
...student groups called on Harvard to divest from any holdings in Sudan-linked firms in a statement released Saturday, urging the University to emulate a similar move by Yale last week. One of the campaign’s leaders, Jennifer T. Morse ’07, said the impetus for the recent push was Harvard’s increase in its Sinopec holdings. The stake had increased by 1,150 shares by the end of last year, according to SEC filings. The group laid out plans to begin a coordinated campaign for divestment at an organizational meeting of 13 students...
...most memorable tunes to grace early consoles, even with a drastically limited palette.With only five channels of sound output, it was clear that lush instrumentation was not going to be the NES' forte. These technical restrictions of the system's sound chips proved to be the main impetus behind the emergence of a unique, musically innovative "Nintendo sound."As a genre, Nintendo music was notable for its ability to circumvent its own apparent limitations, using techniques strangely reminiscent of Baroque-era compositions. Harpsichords, like early pulse-wave synthesizers, don't have a very broad dynamic range, and the intimate chamber...
...surface. "The change from 15 to 25 countries creates new circumstances, and it takes some time to adjust the mindset of the people. We're not only larger but more diverse. We have to come of age." Last year there was "some turbulence," Barroso concedes, as the referendums gave impetus to an anti-E.U. "populism." This year, he is convinced, pragmatism will prevail. "It's easy to put the blame on foreigners, on globalization, on the market, but that's not the honest thing to do. I think right now we're winning this fight for reform," he says...