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...goal of the events is to show students how they can participate in human rights work, according to Cynthia J. Mesh, assistant director of UCHRS. The capstone event will be tomorrow’s ‘Sixty Years of Human Rights: The Idea and the Reality’ panel featuring University Professor Amartya Sen and Medical School Professor Paul Farmer, which is moderated by University President Drew G. Faust. “As Harvard students, we’re in a privileged position to act on behalf of human rights,” said Quinnie...
...state seven years after the U.S.-led invasion. And while they may not have agreed on everything, they did agree on one thing: Afghanistan’s prognosis is not good. Steven Coll, Mark Garlasco, Maleeha Lodhi, and Barnett R. Rubin addressed a packed auditorium yesterday afternoon in a panel discussion moderated by Harvard Kennedy School professor Samantha Power. “It is literally true that the U.S. government does not have a joint-operating plan in Afghanistan,” said Cull, who heads the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy think tank. He went...
...task force led by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright recommended that President-elect Barack Obama create a dedicated interagency group that would respond to genocide by analyzing emerging threats and coordinating action with other nations. The panel, which also includes former U.S. Central Command chief Anthony Zinni, former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle and former Secretary of Defense William Cohen, recommended that the U.S. government invest $250 million in new funds for prevention and response...
...taken the message behind Steingarten’s comments to heart. Formerly a marginalized field at the college, the culinary arts now enjoy a more significant presence on campus. In 2007 alone, the Harvard Culinary Society, Real Food Harvard College, and the Office of Career Services’ panel for careers related to Food and Drink were created.But is this extracurricular and professional recognition of food really enough to usher the culinary arts into the mainstream on campus? The Culinary Society is currently grappling with a lack of facilities as well as the demands of being a resource...
...midst of a week devoted to stopping violence against women, organizers came together last night for a more academic approach. “Nature vs. Nurture: A Panel Discussion on the Origins of Male Violence” was held in front of about sixty men and women last night to accompany the white ribbon campaign. Among them, in jacket and tie, were over a dozen members of the Phoenix final club. “Those of you who have done work with male violence know the nature versus nurture argument comes up all the time. But it?...