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...better friend, no worse enemy." The words echoed through 2nd Lieut. Ilario Pantano's head on the afternoon of April 15, 2004. That was the motto of Lieut. General James Mattis, at the time the commander of the 1st Marine Division in Iraq. Like many junior officers, Pantano looked up to Mattis as the consummate warrior-general. The phrase had stuck with Pantano as he tried to keep his men alive in some of Iraq's meanest neighborhoods, where friends are hard to find...
...also elected to show the rest of the Harvard community how the student body feels on important issues. It is our responsibility to show the rest of the Harvard community that we remember that Harvard stands for hundreds of years of free speech and academic inquiry—our motto “Veritas,” inspires academic exploration. A university or an organization like the U.C. that stifles academic debate has no purpose. For members of the Harvard community to attack the right of the President of the University to ask questions and pose hypotheses denies students...
...paid for it. And according to him, I could improve the quality of life for people and be a problem solver. Well, I became so excited, I went home and told my mother, a teacher, that I wanted to be a civil engineer. My mother had a motto that I have followed to this day: "If you really want to do something, you put your mind to it. Don't let anyone ever tell you that it can't be done." So when I told her, she said, "Great...
...Faculty, rather than engaging in spirited debate about a controversial hypothesis that may (as he himself suggested) be overstated or mistaken, instead will not tolerate utterances by the President that surely fall within the bounds of academic inquiry—hardly an attractive image for a university whose motto is “Veritas.” Those characterizations would not, as I have tried to indicate, be a complete picture, but they would, I fear, contain an uncomfortable amount of truth...
...declining any interview requests. Corker has also received at least five e-mails from students at the University of Chicago challenging the Reuter’s piece’s implication that Harvard is the least socially adept place in the country: their school’s unofficial motto is “University of Chicago: Where fun goes...