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...more of the same. This widespread student apathy has obvious and unfortunate consequences for life on campus. More troubling, however, is what our college experience is teaching us about our relationship to institutions on the whole, particularly when institutional decision-making doesn’t affect the narrow sphere of our activities. If the college years truly predict behavior later in life, then our current habit of abdicating our responsibility to discuss and engage in issues that are bigger than ourselves sets the stage for a future of disassociation from democratic society. Incidentally, the signs are beginning to appear already...
...sure that we took her up on her offer.” When not performing in the palaces of European royalty, Fisher will lead a six-continent, 24-country world tour this summer as the group’s tour manager. But Fisher isn’t a narrow artist. The English concentrator confesses that film is his passion. He has spent his summers working for production companies such as Fox and Sony Pictures Studio. Back on the East Coast, the Tom Cruise look-alike has starred in Harvard-Radcliffe Television’s soap opera, Ivory Tower. Fisher seamlessly...
...Catalan living in London and, of course, a great Barcelona club supporter. Usually Catalans are portrayed as selfish people focused upon their narrow-minded identity, but your article offers an evenhanded take on what my nation is - a small but vibrant, civic and open community. Ivan Serrano-Balaguer London
...despairing pessimism instead of cautious optimism. When Russia announced her arms cut, Secretary Dulles, a man of few and ill-chosen words, responded that “the obvious explanation” is as a propaganda tactic and a shift of manpower to industry and agriculture.... This kind of narrow pre-judgement of Russia with which the U.S. faces the world can do this country little good. It is perhaps more dangerous than naivete, because it characterizes America as stubborn, dogmatic, and incredulous...
...than the national average—approximately one for every four people. This easily outstripped second-place Canada’s 1:20 ratio and China’s 1:8,000. In addition, a daily influx of almost 250,000 non-resident vehicles crowded the historic and historically narrow streets of Cambridge, some of which had not been widened—or changed much at all—for hundreds of years.Most Harvard students in the fifties experienced the traffic snarls as pedestrians, dodging speeding cars on crowded Cambridge streets. Chapman Professor of Business Administration Emeritus Stephen A. Greyser...