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...Gore’s clumsy speech notwithstanding??replete as it was with nebulous metaphors comparing climate change to the subprime-mortgage crisis and a bizarre historiography of the Enlightenment—the event coincided with Harvard’s daylong “sustainability celebration...
...they want to march lockstep over the electoral cliff again, only further than last time. Armed with the evergreen excuse “we lost last time because we weren’t right-wing enough”—three Euro-skeptic, anti-immigration, tax-cutting campaigns notwithstanding??the deluded would-be martyrs argue for more of the same. They cry, “Tory Tory Tory! Banzai! Die for Empress Thatcher,” to borrow the words of Conservative MP Boris Johnson.Back in the real world, the harsh criticism of David Cameron coming from...
...question when asked which university they attend. It’s unfortunate, since in so doing we alienate ourselves from a part of our identity that will define us, inwardly if not outwardly, for our entire lives. Such fearful dishonesty—and dishonesty it is, professions of humility notwithstanding??hurts only ourselves. By refusing publicly associate with the Harvard community, we can never be fully attached to it. Germans should similarly allow themselves to come out of their shells and express their national identity. By all means, let them be ashamed of their country?...
Representatives from two prominent campus political groups came together in front of the Science Center yesterday to rally support for U.S. troops in Iraq—political opinions on the war notwithstanding??in honor of Support Our Troops Week. Members from the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) and the Harvard College Democrats convened at noon to display posters, distribute pins, and promote student support for the troops in Iraq. “A lot of the time the rhetoric gets pretty heated when people say that they’re against the war but they support the troops...
...opposed to a less widely supported “no” confidence—suggests especially that this vote was more about divisive power politics than about the actual sentiment expressed. The Harvard Corporation was never likely to fire Summers—lack of Faculty confidence notwithstanding??and the best option from the start was Skocpol’s more conciliatory proposal...