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...longer a concern for most Harvard students. The inconvenience and expense of owning a car at Harvard—$1,585 per year to park in various out-of-the-way University lots—discourage almost everyone from bringing a car to campus.According to Jeff Parenti, a senior traffic engineer for the city of Cambridge, traffic congestion stems from a simple problem: there are simply “too many cars and not enough streets on which to put them.” But addressing this problem can be extremely complicated. For the last two decades, Cambridge...
Anyway, Harvard was so lame when you hosted the Game last year. How were we supposed to drown out the caustic serenity of your not-so-depressed town when your loco parenti took away the kegs? With all those cops, you are the real safety school...
...half-truths and outright falsehoods about the West. Unfortunately, according to a few tomes currently on the shelves, many people in the West are also shamefully undereducated or just plain miseducated about the history of countries in the Middle East and, in many cases, about history in general. Michael Parenti, in his book "History as Mystery" (City Lights, 1999), writes that a survey conducted in the 1990s by the Gallup Organization found that about 40 percent of American high school seniors did not know when the Civil War occurred and that most couldn't describe the differences between World...
...than on the habitual self-censorship of the newspapers' editors and of their reporters." Later Lukacs observes: "Items about the war were often inaccurate, misleading, or even false." Perhaps today, in books, the various Peoples of the Book can finally find some useful information and some common ground. As Parenti writes: "More exiting than learning history is unlearning the disinformational history we have been taught...
Along with noted author and political analyst Michael Parenti, I think a more appropriate term for the Central Intelligence Agency is Capitalism's International Army or Cocaine Import Agency...