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...group's spiritual leader, Sheik Ahmed Yassin. Few people on either side of the conflict had had much faith that Hamas would stick to the cease-fire it declared in June. But the newest attacks--and the Israeli Cabinet's decision to expel Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat "in a manner, and at a time, of its choosing" for failing to crack down on terrorism--raised the specter of a return to all-out war between Israelis and Palestinians...
...does our nation, with less than 5% of the world's population, need to have tens of thousands of troops dispersed to the ends of the earth? It is one thing to protect our borders in a defensive manner, as other nations do, but the commitment of U.S. troops around the world has empire written all over it. What, exactly, are we "protecting" in other people's sovereign lands, and why are we so hated for our efforts? MAGGIE K. GREENBRANCH Minneapolis, Minn...
HUPD operates a full-service police department that functions in exactly the same manner as a municipal police force. Harvard police officers carry firearms and are empowered to stop, question, detain and even formally arrest any individual in Massachussetts. HUPD officers possess deputy sheriff powers in Middlesex and Suffolk counties and are sworn special state police officers. But unlike other police forces, Harvard claims its police department is exempt from public records laws that permit the public to see reports created by individual police officers...
More than a river separates Harvard Law School (HLS) and Harvard Business School (HBS), so well-intentioned discussions about making them neighbors in Allston are not enough to encourage the two graduate schools to work together in a collegial manner. The barriers to interdisciplinary work have little to do with site location. They need to be addressed by policy changes at the University level...
Facts on the ground seem to argue for the ordination of women and for allowing priests to marry. But beyond such sexy controversies, the deeper question is how the inherently authoritarian leadership of the Catholic Church--in many ways sclerotic, brittle, self-defensive in the manner of all aging bureaucracies--can preserve what is best and permanent, what is sacred, while letting in fresh air and new life. Can what is changeless be preserved only by the intelligent application of change? --By Lance Morrow