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This past Tuesday, March 22 marked Earth Day 2008: a moment of pause in order to reflect on the growing importance of environmental issues and the escalating problems of preservation and sustainability that have become some of the most pressing modern-day realities. In our day-to-day lives as students, family members, and friends, it is all too easy to lose sight of the fact that we are also inhabitants of a fragile habitat and therefore charged with the responsibility of caring for our planet...
...town, too, is isolated: it is not too far from the city of San Diego, but it is far removed from the minds of those who live in that city. The characters and the settings of Silver’s novel are the ones that have been forgotten by modern literary America. We like to think of rural California the way Steinbeck painted it—majestic and a little wild. But we forget that Steinbeck’s stories were filled with loneliness. He first presented what Silver has rediscovered, a rural California that is dusty, deserted...
Presencia Latina, Harvard’s Latino cultural show, is intended not only as a showcase for Latino and Latin-American creativity but also as a means of strengthening the entire community within Harvard. The show, which will take place tomorrow, features both traditional and modern acts presented by the winners of the show’s Latino/a of the Year awards: hip-hop artist Daddy Yankee and “America’s Next Top Model” winner Jaslene Gonzalez. The board members of Presencia Latina have been auditioning students, organizing celebrity guest appearances, and promoting...
...light of Bill Buckley's passing, who are the remaining intellectual giants in modern American conservatism? -Orlando Gutierrez, BostonThere are a lot of very, very smart conservative intellectuals like Thomas Sowell, Michael Novak [and] George Weigal. There are a lot of very thoughtful advocates of what I would call a serious conservatism, by which I mean the preservation of the traditions of freedom and the understanding of the realities within which you have to make decisions...
Several years ago, Mallory contacted Leslie A. Morris, Harvard’s curator of modern books and manuscripts, to inquire about the University’s interest in purchasing the archive, which provides insight into the life of the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, journalist, and playwright who died last November...