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...contenders can be classified under the soothing moniker of “moderate”; indeed, one reason Ron Paul’s extreme views have found so much support is that he seems freer of the artifice that holds so many others in a tenacious grip. Under the present system, a show of emotion amounts to a crack in the gleaming, vapid exterior to reveal the hopes, worries, and humanity that underlie it. It’s disconcerting because although we like to admire our candidates from afar and know the intimate details of their lives, what we really...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira | Title: Cry, The Beloved Country | 1/11/2008 | See Source »

...Paying top salaries is well within the means of the largest university endowment on earth—provided that the almost Soviet-style fantasy of the Allston expansion, at present envisioned to cover the area of 25 football fields, is abandoned,” he wrote...

Author: By Laura A. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Financing Allston is ‘Complex’ Matter | 1/11/2008 | See Source »

...term “urban sprawl” might conjure up images of Newark or Houston, but the dense, chaotic outskirts of Cairo, Egypt present a planning nightmare on a different scale...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Ancient City’s Sprawl | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

...this confessedly unsuccessful program. We should not be required to sacrifice quality in our own education, simply to buttress the ridiculous illusion that the Core’s primary fault is only that its “rationale” needs updating. As often with deeply flawed structures, the present period of re-evaluation and rebuilding calls for an immediate moratorium on the program itself...

Author: By Max J Kornblith | Title: Rotten to the Core | 1/9/2008 | See Source »

...Shanghai listing of PetroChina, a subsidiary of the state-run China National Petroleum Company (CNPC). CNPC is a business partner of the Sudanese government.UBS has defended itself by arguing that PetroChina itself has no operations in Sudan.Still, members of the Harvard Darfur Action Group (HDAG) have been present at several UBS recruiting events this fall, including one in mid-November, handing out fliers detailing the alleged relationship between UBS and PetroChina. The first e-recruiting deadline for students applying for summer internships is today.“I think that students don’t go into these events with...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wall Street Woes Don’t Deter Seniors | 1/9/2008 | See Source »

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