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...heaven. In Greek lore, Pleiades is a group of seven sisters renowned for their beauty and immortalized by Zeus as a constellation. In the Harvard Bookstore, Pleiades is an obscure literary magazine published by Central Missouri State University. And in the Harvard social milieu, Pleiades is a recently formed quasi-sorority. FM played matchmaker, uniting the social club and the magazine to explore their eponymous obscurity...
...this is still a valuable, if one-sided, picture of what our soldiers are doing and thinking. And its quasi-propaganda --the tear-jerking goodbyes with sweethearts, the boilerplate (albeit sincere) talk about duty--hardly differs from much war news. In a way, the series is even subversive: the Bush Administration won the semantic battle to describe the struggle against terrorism as a war, but Profiles shows that the actual work looks more like policing. As with the battlefield reports Ellsberg pored over, it needs a skeptical eye--but that just makes its story that much more interesting...
...closest advisers last week if the President had struggled with his Iraq decision. "No," he said, peremptorily, then quickly amended, "He understands the enormity of it, he understands the nuances, but has there been hand-wringing or existential angst along the way? No." (This, in contrast to his torturous quasi-Solomonic decision on stem-cell research...
...closest advisers last week if the President had struggled with his Iraq decision. "No," he said, peremptorily, then quickly amended, "He understands the enormity of it, he understands the nuances, but has there been hand-wringing or existential angst along the way? No." (This, in contrast to his torturous quasi-Solomonic decision on stem-cell research...
Another misconception which the initial results clarify is the notion that faculty members are anxious to take control of their institution. In all types of schools, those questioned indicated that they would like to decrease the time spent in administrative capacities. They would prefer a "quasi-democratic" institution in which they could be influential yet not actually fill administrative posts...