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...plus snowshoes, skis, kayaks” as part of their gear cooperative aimed at encouraging and supporting those who yearn to explore the outdoors, explains outgoing president James S. Miller ’09. For a mere $10 a semester, Harvard students, faculty, affiliates can register to be a member of the co-op. But HOC is pretty laid back in terms of membership. “Anyone can become a member,” says Hersher. “We’re not particularly discriminating,” Miller echoes.The gear cooperative however, is just one facet...
...brief skim of MenSpeakUp’s website betrays this sort of haphazard agenda. “Because not being a rapist is not enough,” writes one member. In a video, another encourages his fellow males to speak out against rape jokes. (Is this the sort of innovative thinking that makes the Harvard man?) But where the site is not merely bland, it is alarmist and misleading. The site provides little in the way of actual rape statistics, except for reporting that, “by most estimates, between one in three to one in five women...
...Dick Cheney commented last month that the Obama administration’s policies were making Americans less safe, Robert Gibbs, Obama’s press secretary, responded with the following comment: “Well, I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy, so they trotted out the next-most-popular member of the Republican cabal...
...Russia have recently escalated over the expulsion from NATO headquarters of two Russian diplomats implicated in a spying scandal uncovered in Estonia last week. And NATO's plans to go ahead with a long-planned monthlong "crisis response" drill involving about 1,000 soldiers from more than 12 NATO member states at another military base near Tbilisi starting Wednesday have exacerbated tensions...
...also just in time for the European elections next month. The Parliament effectively closes down Friday as campaigning begins across the E.U.'s 27 member states. Unlike seals, who have permanent residence on any list of the cutest things in the world, MEPs suffer from an image problem: the public views them as ineffectual and anonymous, and turnout at the upcoming elections is expected to be a record low. By standing up for beautiful baby seals - and backing a cause championed by the likes of Paul McCartney and Pamela Anderson - MEPs perhaps thought they could strike a chord with jaded...