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With reference to Friday's "Crimson Wisdom": Though Harvard Dining Services does indeed deserve credit for the new fly-by lunches in Loker Commons, The Crimson ought give credit where credit is due. Two members of the Undergraduate Council, Noah Z. Seton '00 and John Paul Rollert '00, conceived, lobbied for and helped implement the idea...
...stepping down as President of the University, saying he would prefer to leave that question to his successor. Why are administrators wary of committing themselves publicly to the principle that Harvard College should aim to make its students good citizens, and if it is not accomplishing that goal, then ought something to change...
...debatable whether such a virulent speaker ought to have been allowed to gather thousands of impressionable youths in the middle of the city, especially given the lean on public resources entailed. Once the event was given the go-ahead, Giuliani ought to have worked more closely with the community to insure a safe rally with as little additional racial antagonism as possible; Muhammad himself supplied enough of that...
...more the sick nations grasp the failures of their own leaders, the more they long for some outsider to set things right. Fairly or not, the burden of leadership ultimately falls on the U.S. Clinton ought to be the reassurer of last resort, but he is distracted by the Lewinsky scandal, and many are concerned that his personal stature and moral authority are seeping away. His attention to foreign affairs has always been intermittent but surely diminishes the more time he must spend with his lawyers...
...industry in which public criticism is an unforgivable faux pas if not a cardinal sin, you opened fire on two of show-biz-land's most beloved citizens. First there was the charming advice you told the New York Daily News you gave ROBERT DE NIRO, that he ought to do Shakespeare. "It's ridiculous for an actor that good to keep playing Las Vegas hoods. That's terrible," you said. Never mind that he's only actually played one Las Vegas hood. And then you opined that except for his roles in the movies A Few Good...