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...Obama campaigner, my advice to Obama is this: Don’t bend over backward compromising with people who want as little change as possible. Doing so will not only water down meaningful health-care reform, but it will also prove that there is no “meaningful?? change in politics. The power of “Yes we can!” will fade away, and millions of Obama recruits to the political process will conclude that it’s “business as usual” again...
...While the Renewal Report acknowledges that the SCR presently falls short of its goal of fostering “meaningful?? interactions among faculty, students, and alumni, and recommends bolstering the presence of SCR members in House communities, House Masters targeted SCR expenses for budget reductions...
...meaningful?? life, in Faust’s context, naturally is used in a relatively restricted sense. Tellingly, she contrasted the toilsome life of the financier with the apparently richer and more rewarding lives of the actor, artist, public servant, and journalist. Harvard’s abundant extracurricular interest in those putatively more meaningful pursuits may justify Faust’s presumption that, were money not an obstacle, students would prefer them to the arduous, although handsomely remunerated, tasks of Wall Street...
...many Harvard students today, as Faust correctly seemed to indicate, cannot be bothered thinking seriously about the good or “meaningful?? life. To have succeeded in gaining admission in the first place required an intense drive and prodigious ambition. As such, concerned almost exclusively with the even loftier rewards and honors to which their degrees will entitle them, most do not want to waste intellectual energy on matters that do not have a clear, tangible benefit...
...going to go the SCR when Brad Pitt and Angelia Jolie come here?” Mayman said. (Pitt and Jolie were slated to be at a College event earlier this week, but did not end up attending.)The House Renewal Report recommends fostering “casual yet meaningful?? exchanges between undergraduates by supplementing the SCR with a pilot House Fellows Program in some Houses. The new initiative will establish clear expectations for Fellows, who will have short tenures, in order to facilitate informal exchanges with undergraduates.Based on his experiences as a resident tutor, when he taught...