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...series where local community leaders could come and speak about Buddhism. Other students suggested readings and meditation lessons so that newcomers could better understand the religion. Wagner said that the decision to open the HBC up to College students lay in the fact that Buddhism currently suffers from a lack of awareness and participation. Although Harvard boasts one of the nation’s largest number of faculty members with academic interests in Buddhism, practicing Buddhists still remain elusive, according to Wagner. “Constantly, people are coming [to Harvard] representing the religious side of other religions...
...years ago, all nine incumbents are running for reelection, and again, pundits predict a sweep.While many of this year’s challengers say they tried to learn from DeBergalis’s innovative campaign, few have followed the tactics that brought him so close to victory. And a lack of substantial policy issues has left challengers struggling to capture voters’ attention. MATT’S SHADOWIn a city of popular politicians with a strong hold on voter loyalty, DeBergalis found his niche two years ago by creating his own constituency.Students are a demographic long ignored by Cambridge...
...seem to lack the ideological passion of antiapartheid or antiwar protests, but the new activist slogan on campuses is "Eat local." Students are rediscovering the political adage that you are what you eat. And colleges are voting with their palates--and their multimillion-dollar food budgets--against an ever more global agricultural industry in which produce travels, on average, 1,500 miles from farm to plate. Posters around the University of Portland campus proclaimed that BUYING LOCAL FOOD IS ONE WAY YOU CAN HELP STOP GLOBAL WARMING ... AIR AND WATER POLLUTION. A racier consciousness-raising stunt was staged at Brown...
...Steele said, “but then whenever you make mistakes later you kind of know that you should be doing better, because you know that you can.” The weekend proved to be somewhat anticlimactic for the rest of the sailing team, as a lack of wind forced the cancellation of the Horn Trophy, which was scheduled to be held on Harvard’s home waters. The weekend’s spotlight, therefore, was entirely on the freshmen. “We have a very strong freshman class,” team co-captain Sloan Devlin...
...like much else about the war in Iraq, Fallujah hasn't turned out as the U.S. had hoped. In many respects, the city reflects less the progress of the U.S. enterprise than its troubles. The city's reconstruction has been slowed by a lack of coordination among the military, U.S. aid agencies and the Iraqi government. U.S. officers on the ground say they have denied terrorists a base in Fallujah. But across Iraq, the insurgency hasn't been curbed. October was the fourth deadliest month for U.S. troops since they invaded Iraq in March 2003, and last week 27 more...