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...continuing, indifferent response to the situation, the administration seeming as unwilling to examine its position as to defend it. It shouldn’t require 45 people risking arrest, academic failure and their health to make the University respond to substantive questions in a thoughtful and meaningful manner. As it was, the administration missed an ideal opportunity to steer Harvard to the moral high ground on an important issue, to articulate a commitment to its employees, to make a statement to the rest of the world about the values of this University. Instead, the world received a far different message...
With his easy smile and affable manner, Kevin Meyers comes off as a pretty nice guy. He is also an all-around theater impresario, participating in everything from playwriting and performing in the Hasty Pudding Theatricals to producing “Tommy” in the Ex and working on the Broadway musical “Seussical...
Saidu has some reason to run from Mazar, where thousands have died each time the city changed hands. Last week Red Cross workers found nearly 600 bodies, killed in fighting or executed. The manner in which Mazar emerges from Taliban rule could signal how Afghanistan will fare at peace...
...people, like Muslims, who belong to a faith that is rooted in a sacred text. Karen Armstrong, in her recent tome "Islam: A Short History," quotes a line from the Quran that reads "Do not argue with the followers of an earlier revelation otherwise than in a most kindly manner..." It's a gentle, nonconfrontational passage that contrasts sharply with the uncompromising rhetoric many Westerners associate with fundamentalist Islam...
Even in the interests of combatting terrorism, we cannot defend such a cavalier sacrifice of the fundamental principles of our legal system and of the liberties which make America a country worth defending. Should any accused terrorists be tried in this manner, the gross lack of due process will severely undercut the validity of the verdicts in the eyes of the world—and, more importantly, in the eyes of the American people...