Word: local
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...catch the shuttle there. 3) An entire building for Gen Ed. Isn’t this what FAS meetings are for? 2) Organic Manure in the Yard. Oh, now I get why we need chairs instead of just blankets. Gross. 1) We’re all for supporting local farmers. But do we need to eat squash with every meal...
...Gato Rojo, Harvard decided to order one hundred. Thank God that Assistant to the Associate picked up a copy of Sky Mall on his way back from an administrative retreat in Scottsdale, Arizona. It’s really a brilliant move if you consider two things. First, the local yard sale and Craig’s List economy needed an injection of seating instruments and scrap metal. Second is that all those times I want to sit and chat with friends and can’t make it to the student center in the quad, Lamont, the Barker Center, Greenhouse...
...rest of the world and has invited the public to join its unique academic community. Just as “Justice” itself urges students to reconsider their beliefs and approaches to action, it is good to see Harvard open its long-closed gates in dialogue with the local and national communities...
...pursuit of international justice in Sierra Leone? The concern all of us had was that we were conducting justice in a comfortable courtroom with long trials and well-paid attorneys. Prisoners had single cells, and they had committed the worst crimes. A mile away in the local prison there were simply no resources. Cases can't go forward, witnesses are lost, and people stay in detention for many years at a stretch. [If I was] to do it over, I would try to develop a court within the national system. That would be my preference. Maybe not a court that...
...With the center-left opposition all but nonexistent in Italy's Parliament, everyone is on the lookout for potential Judases within the ruling majority's ranks. And as far as the Italian media are concerned, Gianfranco Fini, president of Parliament's lower house, is filling that role nicely. The local paper in Bologna, Il Resto del Carlino, like others in Italy, offers daily updates on a brewing feud between Berlusconi and Fini, the most powerful right-wing politician from this traditionally left-leaning city. Last week, Fini demanded "more democracy" within the center-right coalition and lashed out at Berlusconi...