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...group of friends to keep tabs on one another despite hectic Harvard schedules. This seems harmless—insofar as it increases comfort levels with blogging, quite valuable even. Still, when creating new discussion forums we ought to think carefully about in which category (public or private) they belong, lest we clamp down unnecessarily on conversations which should rightly have been open...
...security measures-including a perimeter around the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi through which only documented residents are allowed to pass-large trucks will no longer be allowed into the "red zone" in the east of the capital where diplomatic compounds, government buildings and international hotels are located, lest they be carrying explosives. Any one who enters the area must have photo documentation and express permission from the interior ministry...
...another reminder, courtesy of the Harvard College Library (HCL), that their vice will not be tolerated in the libraries any time soon. The next last-minute dash to Lamont to take out that never-purchased coursepack better not run over the mandated borrowing limits for on-reserve items, lest the violator fall victim to the recent 100 percent hike in per-minute fines. On Feb. 1, all reserve-holding libraries—Cabot, Fine Arts, Fung, Harvard-Yenching, Lamont, Littauer, Loeb Music, Tozzer, and the Quad—upped the penalty for late items from one cent per minute...
...matter of such gravity as closed is a grave injustice to both its own soldiers and the abuse victims. This deceit has further tarred the United States’ global image, and repairing this image must start with the acceptance of responsibility through the immediate resignation of Rumsfeld, lest this sort of gross negligence at the highest levels of our military go unpunished...
...insistence that British royal officials could only communicate with provincial Chinese authorities indirectly by way of “petition,” instead of on terms of diplomatic equality. There was also irritation with Chinese constraints on trade—Western traders were confined to Canton (modern Guangzhou) lest too many foreigners should disturb the tranquility of Chinese life. But the British, like everyone else, were dazzled by the prospect of a limitless Chinese market, if only they could get there; so they wanted more ports opened to trade. Furthermore, free trade was fast becoming a moral imperative...