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...more instable the situation will become. Although the United States faces a whole host of pressing issues, the president and Congress should not forget the threat posed by armed North Korea. For Kim Jong Il’s next birthday, the US should send him an unsolicited birthday present in the form of a brief memo: Comply with the negotiated terms or face consequences...

Author: By Eric Lee | Title: Don’t Forget About North Korea | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

While the teen audience does not allow for the number of racy scenes present in her previous books, Jaffe’s new readers are no less interested in that elusive climax. According to Jaffe, nearly half of the letters she receives from her younger readers have something to do with sex. This should come as no surprise, considering Jaffe, like her novels, has had plenty to blush about. Especially in her four years at Harvard...

Author: By Nicola C. Perlman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Literature With Libido | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

...removed from the campus for archival purposes. “I decided to recreate these portraits into living, color hues that will make their presence and historical value attractive to today’s students,” the director said in an email. The connection between past and present manifests itself in multiple facets of the film. Van Devere combines footage shot in 2005 with early twentieth-century music, radio clips from WWI, and “actualities” shot by Thomas Edison. The film’s nine credited actors are comprised of eight undergraduates...

Author: By Rachel E. Whitaker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: On the Radar: Bachelors Cottage | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

...shared, chopped up, and incorporated into new works. It’ll make the difficult work of historians easier, it will allow us to find connections that were before obfuscated by distance or form, and it will allow us to better incorporate our forbears’ culture into the present culture.These are, by and large, relatively uncontroversial aims in principle, but we should be actively wary of those who might get in their way. Copyright holders are obvious culprits—we should all aim to learn about fair use and be willing to use it as a defense wherever...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline, | Title: Bits of History | 2/28/2006 | See Source »

...1970s and 1980s) will replace another (who called Harvard College “the very heart of the university” in his 2001 inaugural address).And if undergraduate issues are indeed a priority to Harvard, then we, Harvard’s undergraduates, must put the rare opportunity presented by the Harvard College Curricular Review before politics. Historically, this sort of opportunity has presented itself once every three decades. Our chance to restructure the curriculum comes once every 30 years regardless of who the president is, regardless of who the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science...

Author: By Matthew R. Greenfield, | Title: Curricular Review Must Move Forward | 2/28/2006 | See Source »

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