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...tactics are just as appropriate and necessary here as anywhere else. Students, and workers especially, have virtually no say in university decision-making. If a large portion of the Harvard community believes that university policies are unjust, Harvard offers nothing more than infrequent token meetings with administrators. We all prefer to be part of a university with democratic structures in place to ensure that policies are accountable to students, faculty, and workers. But the incredibly authoritarian way Harvard operates ensures that broad university problems will only be resolved, if at all, in the same way that economic injustices are resolved...
...young Mansoor has become a legend in the region. His supporters claim he has said he would prefer to die fighting than live under U.S. occupation. The son of a famed mujahedin who was killed by a car bomb in 1993, he seems to have tried to make a deal with Wardak to surrender his forces when an American attack became imminent. But local feuds got in the way; Mansoor led his troops into the mountains, where they had already made preparations. Wardak says that in the tiny villages that cling to the slopes, al-Qaeda fighters had been buying...
...College Harry R. Lewis ’68, “especially in the sciences, where Harvard provides the best education in the world and there is not the obvious curricular connection that there is in the literatures, history or elsewhere in the humanities and social sciences, would prefer summer experiences, short-term programs like the Weissman Fellowships [which fund student-initiated summer internships outside the U.S.] or postgraduate study opportunities...
...There's a good reason for that. On the whole, we tend to like our monsters large. No accidental bad guys for us - no doubting, fallible, uncertain villains who stumble improvisationally from crime to crime, blinking in occasional surprise at their own power to do harm. No, we prefer cunning, slit-eyed evildoers, malefactors who plan their crimes with dispassionate genius, then execute them with reptilian calm. What sense does a devil make if he acts too much like...
...Best Excursions: The Vosges, a skiable mountain range west of Strasbourg, and the pic-turesque Black Forest in Germany are within an hour. Wine lovers might prefer the Route des Vins snaking south...