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...really serious and talented student who was a little bit on the shy side,” Gordon said. “She was working at a very high level...
That spirit of level-headed bipartisanship proved hard to come by as the climate-change and energy debates came to the fore. Obama’s move in April to promote offshore drilling was an unnecessary and unsavory concession whose political benefits do not outweigh the consequences to the environment. It represented not thoughtful compromise, but rather the political strong-arming that yields poor policy...
Political oddities punctuated these national-level debates throughout the academic year. Obama’s surprise Nobel Peace Prize reflected a poor decision on the prize committee’s part, but we recognized the grace and humility with which Obama handled a politically delicate situation. In contrast, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele inappropriately behaved in an outlandish fashion that was an embarrassment to the Republican Party. His involvement in the strip-club funding debacle and indelicate handling of racial issues evinced our argument that the RNC had no one but itself to blame for choosing such...
...national political landscape has certainly changed over the last 12 months, and much of that change has been for better. Still, reactionary responses to big issues sully the national discourse and subject complex problems to the visceral, not the cerebral. Only by adopting a level-headed, considerate, and thoughtful approach to national policies can we craft the idealized American community that we strive...
Among the changes advocated by Bunting-Smith was the affiliation of Harvard Houses with Radcliffe dorms, the first of which were between Quincy House and Holmes and Comstock Halls. These affiliations were aimed at raising the level of what Bunting-Smith called “dinner-table education” at Radcliffe. They also granted women accessibility to scholarly conversations with professors and research assistants that had previously only been granted to male students...