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Epps said he met on Friday with a small group of senior tutors and Harvard's chief of police, Paul E. Johnson, to talk about the problem of private parties that "spill over" into halls. He said concern about current policy arose as a result of several incidents a week...
...economy fails, if Premier Li stops Jiang's succession, then all bets are off for Deng and his cronies," says the Chengdu professor. "Deng got the point that Communism doesn't work, that it tries to change human nature. He got the point about incentive. The problem is that many of the other old guys don't like his views and never have. And right now they are trying to force a serious turn back, and they're using the ammunition of a faltering economy. Well, the macroeconomic numbers are indeed bad, but most people have conveniences they have never...
...going against the grain, you really need support," says Adkins. "The problem with public-interest is the support's not really there...
President Bush's recent call for an escalation in the War on Drugs demands serious debate among the American public on how best to deal with this devastating social problem. While Seth Gitell is right to support greater Harvard participation in this debate ("Joining the War on Drugs," September 26), most of his concrete suggestions are worse than useless, offering more of the same flawed drug policies the nation has pursued unsuccessfully for decades...
What does this have to do with the average Harvard undergraduate? Practically nothing--and that's the problem with Gitell's prescriptions. Gitell compares the University's potential role in the War on Drugs with its cooperation in World War Two, but a better analogy might be Vietnam, another conflict directed by Harvard's "best and brightest." This is another war America can't win, but at least this time Harvard's faculty are a little more cautious about the prospects for victory...