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William James, an Extension School student working toward a citation in legal studies, says that “of course there are obvious differences [between a course in Second Life and real life], which can detract from or add to the experience. Some people don’t have the confidence to interact in a classroom, especially with one of the world’s greatest law professors, but can do so in Second Life...
...Division I-A games. But the 2006 edition will be subject to restrictions unheard of in previous years, even after what was often called an overly restrictive policy at Yale last year that merely banned drinking games and limited the length of the festivities.The new policy has its obvious health-related flaws, which have been well-chronicled in these pages. Students, opponents say, will drink in the houses, binge drink, or avoid seeking help for dangerously intoxicated friends for fear of punishment. Yale’s tougher policy led to a significant drop in alcohol hospitalizations last year.Meanwhile, the Undergraduate...
...White House, and then the Kazakhstani President will go to the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. Kazakhstan's growing oil shipments to world markets, and its potential to emerge as a stable, modernized, predominantly Muslim but religiously tolerant state with a secular government in the volatile region, have obvious appeal for the Bush Administration - so much so that it tends to downplay the country's gagged media; the arbitrary arrests, exiles and murders of opposition leaders; its rubber-stamp political institutions and bogus elections; and rampant corruption, including a $78 million kickbacks-for-oil-rights case that has been...
...saying that world leaders must be held accountable for their contraventions of international law. Any leader with a poor human rights record or any leader who illegally develops nuclear weapons must be condemned—loudly, publicly, and persistently.Yet in the United States and here at Harvard, these supposedly obvious democratic principles are often overlooked in favor of political expediency and the sanctity of the party line. The recent visit of former Iranian President Sayyid Muhammad Khatami could not have highlighted this point more clearly, providing a sterling example of the malleable standards by which we judge some leaders...
...White House, and then the Kazakhstani President will go to the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. Kazakhstan's growing oil shipments to world markets, and its potential to emerge as a stable, modernized, predominantly Muslim but religiously tolerant state with a secular government in the volatile region, have obvious appeal for the Bush Administration - so much so that it tends to downplay the country's gagged media; the arbitrary arrests, exiles and murders of opposition leaders; its rubber-stamp political institutions and bogus elections; and rampant corruption, including a $78 million kickbacks-for-oil-rights case that has been...