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...phrase—accessible to the road. According to the same guard, none of the security staff within the museum, including his own supervisor, is armed, though they have a direct line to the Harvard University Police Department. “If there is a problem that might entail violence we’re supposed to use our radio and say, ‘Hey, let’s get the HUPD over here,’” he explains...
...Harvard seems to have largely dodged drunkorexia. J.P. Chilazi ’10, president of University Health Services' Drug & Alcohol Peer Advisors, said he hasn’t heard of the condition being a problem here and noted that a 2008 campus survey found 96 percent of all Harvard students eating before or while drinking. But as “someone who knows a fair amount about alcohol consumption patterns,” he said he found the condition’s name to be “bizarre” and hoped for a “more technical...
...Donkey Show”—the show she is currently co-directing with Randy Weiner—serve as hosts at the kick-off event. Both Faust and Paulus have been integral in highlighting the arts on the Harvard campus, and the problem of scarce common social spaces may be addressed in a way that could potentially benefit both initiatives.“You always see people just walking through the Yard. Now it becomes a place where people can stop. It really changes the dynamic, to be able to have the energy of the artists here...
...many parts of the world, women are inhibited in all aspects of their lives because of their gender. Sex-selective abortions continue to be a problem in many parts of India and China, and female literacy rates throughout the developing world are markedly lower than those of men. In traditionally patriarchal communities—not only in the Middle East but also in Africa and Asia—women are not permitted to leave their homes or show their faces in public. The United Nations International Labor Organization estimates that over 12 million women are working as sex slaves...
...Director] Louis Freeh could identify terrorism as a major threat, but that imperative got lost somewhere in the bureaucracy. The same thing happened throughout the government. It's really foolhardy to single out individual agency heads as we tend to do in our culture when really, I think the problem is deeper - the problem is the difficulty of orchestrating a change in mission when government is structured a certain...