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...represent an existential threat to the U.S. Ahmadinejad commands no legions-not even the Hizballah forces in Lebanon that attacked Israel in the summer of 2006-and if Podhoretz doesn't know that, he should. Taking Ahmadinejad literally, as the neoconservatives do, is being disingenuous with lethal intent. It gives license to a conga line of politicians-especially Republicans running for ?President-to strut their stuff by jumping on Ahmadinejad and Columbia University and liberals in general. Mitt Romney runs an ad in which he brags that he denied the milquetoast reformer Khatami a police escort to Harvard University...
...can’t declare a secondary field until one has completed all of the requirements, many departments, such as English, History, and Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), mandate that students take limited enrollment classes to complete those very requirements. Although students can notify a department of their intent to do a secondary field, without an official status it is extremely difficult to get into these types of courses...
...intent is obviously to prevent student groups from passing themselves off as official agents of the University. But was this ever a danger? This sort of minutiae is not only senseless nitpicking that falls apart outside the vacuum of common sense in a lawyer’s office, but it’s also a waste of Harvard’s time and money. The University reportedly spends $500,000 to a million dollars each year on weaseling out trademark violations. One would imagine there are better uses...
...anti-Coop carping about “community,” the critics fail to realize the bookstore’s rightful place in it: to procure the obscure titles students need, and sell them in a convenient, centralized location. The Coop’s mission indeed includes the intent “to serve the Harvard community,” but also, as those selective readers may not have not noticed, the stipulation that its “operations should be profitable.” The Coop may charge too much, but it is not meant...
...Lawrence H. Summers, who, in fact, said that "there is much...in Israel’s foreign and defense policy that can be and should be vigorously challenged," but added that singling Israel out was one example of "actions that are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent...