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...thinking at the time,” he said, “this is great, but not every soldier in Iraq knows the right person to ask for supplies. Mom and Pop are not going to send you Arabic language books...
...future,” says Venky, noting that Harvard recently announced the creation of a new engineering track that will focus on creating “Renaissance engineers.” “What we want to have as our focus for the undergraduates is the broadly educated person, who’s comfortable in communications, who understands the societal issues. So if they’re working in some fancy new cell form, they also know the social implications of what they...
...said that any recommendations made by the ORL were made based on information about the physical space available in each House. “I think they were just trying to go by square footage,” she said, “and make sure that no one person is too crowded and that we use our space as efficiently as we can.” —Charles J. Wells contributed to the reporting of this story.—Staff writer Abby D. Phillip can be reached at adphill@fas.harvard.edu...
...often in this campaign, Obama's rhetoric has been gorgeous but abstract, ear candy for the educated. But this simple statement, equating his black surrogate father and his white surrogate mother, was something any fair-minded person could understand: almost every one of us has an uncle or a grandmother good for at least two jaw-droppers every Thanksgiving. Yes, the Senator was comparing apples and freight trains: Wright's hate speech was as public and consequential as the grandmother's stereotypes were private, but Obama came to this comparison only after he had unequivocally condemned his pastor for having...
...favorite adjectives are logical and realistic and the verbs he returns to are investigate, analyze and explore. The Buddha was a "scientist," he said the last time I saw him, which means that a true Buddhist should follow the course of reason (recalling, perhaps, that anger most harms the person who feels it). Contact and communication are the methods he always stresses-to this day, he encourages every possibility for dialogue with China and in places even urges Tibetans to study Buddhism under Chinese leaders whom he knows to be capable...