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...needs to increase no matter who manages the terminals. It is our hope that isolationist, and perhaps racist, sentiments are not permitted to sidetrack our leaders from this vital issue, that port security is improved, and that just commerce—in this case, the sale of private shipping operations??is inhibited no further...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: A Port to Tolerance | 2/27/2006 | See Source »

...discomfort—a 25-foot-long metal piston that was being dropped again and again to the ground, smashing and stirring up dirt as part of the ongoing Grant/Cowperthwaite construction project. What the Harvard construction website euphemistically describes as “ongoing digging and concrete operations?? was creating a noise loud enough to wake the dead. The relentless pounding was giving me a headache, and could apparently be heard as far away as Dunster and Mather; one student described it as reminiscent of the scene in Jurassic Park where the T-Rex slams his feet...

Author: By Andrew Kreicher, | Title: Deconstructing Harvard | 1/12/2006 | See Source »

...three is to one,’” Fick said. “In counterinsurgency, soft power is to hard power and 10 is to one.” Fick discussed the pros and cons of soft power in the Iraq war. For positives, he cited psychological operations??such as sending messages to the opposing troops to dissuade them from fighting—which caused many Iraqi troops to surrender at the beginning, as well as the check that embedded reporters put on the troops, who are less likely to commit moral atrocities when they know...

Author: By Ted Kirby, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nye Says U.S. Misused Power in Iraq | 12/7/2005 | See Source »

Expeditions organized by the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) and the Harvard College Democrats carried students to New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and South Carolina. There, they often slept on cold floors, subsisted on diets of caffeine and candy, and helped coordinate local operations??sometimes even compromising GPA’s in the process...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Rally to '04 Campaigns | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

Dorm Crew—a student-managed division of Harvard’s Facilities Maintenance Operations??is Harvard’s headquarters for cleaning and other maintenance functions. During the term, Orfitelli says Dorm Crew must keep cleaning supplies in stock and organize them; it also deals with superintendents, deans, and Yard Ops in addition to handling its own taxes and payroll of over $1 million each year...

Author: By Heloisa L. Nogueira, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Worker Readies for Spring Cleaning | 5/27/2005 | See Source »

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