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...organizations such as Upward Bound and MESA, and some later, through admission to top colleges, including Harvard. We applaud Harvard for offering unprecedented financial support to low-income students, helping many first-generation college students, including those from at-risk communities. However, as evidenced by significant research and a recent article in the Boston Globe, the inclination to believe that providing access and financial assistance is enough is both wrong and dangerous. One of us broached this issue with President Drew G. Faust when she visited Los Angeles last year. Her response implied that financial assistance and current programs were...
...with his baritone voice while busily marveling at an iPhone. His choice from the menu: innovation. Dazzled by the past two centuries of achievements, he is likely discussing bio-fuels while Shirley and Edgar teach him to twitter. The wise Ben Franklin would speak illuminating words for our recent graduates, inspiring them to recognize the power of innovation in all its forms. And if told that it’s not on the menu, he would simply provide the recipe...
...recent graduates are served an entrée of opportunity it is likely that our legendary pioneers from yesteryear would charge them with the responsibility of being the link between past and future...
Nonetheless, I begin from a recent Crimson editorial deploring the loss of America’s international reputation under the Bush administration. Reputation for what? I ask. A reputation for being agreeable and nice, or for acting strongly and successfully? No foreign policy move so far of President Obama has done more for our reputation than ordering the very humane shooting, with no interrogation, of three pirates...
...look at the basics of the Constitution with a view to recent controversy. It is often said that the Constitution establishes the rule of law, and that is true, but only in a way. It also establishes a strong executive power, with a president elected by the people separately from Congress and with powers extending well beyond mere execution of the laws. America is the first republic to have a strong executive and much of its success is due to it. A strong executive looks like one-man rule, the very monarchy against which republics have always contested; its danger...