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...voters had to decide between letting a suspected terrorist run free, and sending him to a faraway place where a moral principle is violated in the hopes of getting information that might prevent a bombing, that's not much of a contest. This may explain why public reaction to the Marty report has been relatively muted. Despite Spain's prominent role in the report, for example, only one of its national newspapers put the story on Page One. In Germany, the World Cup trumps just about anything. That's too bad. It could be productive to discuss publicly what...
Summers may have garnered the greatest reaction from the audience when he referenced the University’s advancements in stem cell research. Harvard’s Stem Cell Institute was founded under Summers’ watch...
...Pentagon planners had little chance to reflect on their success before turning to the next challenge. From the park benches in the Pentagon courtyard to the secure conference rooms, military officials are already talking through their preparations for an outbreak of insurgent violence in reaction to the news. Attacks in Iraq have already reached an all-time high of 700 per week, according to a State Department source, and officers are bracing for the scores of terrorist and criminal cells spread across Iraq to react to news of Zarqawi's killing. For the special forces troops, they are already moving...
...greatest strength, but also one of its mightiest flaws. The past year has shown once more that the University can use the resource of its great past in two ways—to uphold the values that should always exist here, or to nourish the forces of reaction and conservatism that have sometimes triumphed. In the early winter, when President Bok decided that Harvard would not enter as a commercial competitor in the booming field of genetic engineering, he appealed to some time-honored precepts. Learning should be an end in itself, not a way to earn vast fortunes. Teachers...
...residential life.“If anything,” Nelson says, the new program “should have been embraced by the prefects as an upgrade to their position.”Though her colleagues never saw it coming, Rinere suddenly found herself facing furious student reaction.‘DIFFICULT TO NAVIGATE’Even without opposition from prefects, Rinere would have faced an uphill battle in changing Harvard’s advising system.The advising structure at the College is “highly decentralized” and “difficult to navigate...