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...said in a recent phone interview that when he took over, he feared that the curricular review might die. It was of the utmost importance to sustain the committee’s momentum...
...Recent events concerning a British prisoner at Guantanamo have exemplified this disappointedly consistent level of secrecy. Binyam Mohamed, a Pakistani-born British citizen, was the first prisoner to be released from Guantanamo after Obama ordered its closure earlier this year. Controversy has since abounded from Mohamed’s court case, in which a High Court decree to release information regarding torture allegations was denied by the British Foreign Office. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s justification for the refusal was that disclosure would do “serious and lasting harm”, to the United Kingdom?...
...quite some time, eagerly reaching out and reshaping our tactics without yielding on core principles and beliefs. We are not apologizing or being “self-conscious” about our views; we are being better communicators of our ideas. It’s simple: Take one recent case for example where the Obama administration has decided to redefine unemployment benefits to include even part-time workers...
...nerdiest. While MIT and the University of Chicago duke it out for the title of nerdiest school, James Franco and Renee Zellweger show up at Harvard to party. Somehow, miracle of miracles, Harvard is “cool.” According to David Aberegg’s recent book, “Nerds: Who They Are, And Why We Need More of Them,” this is a bad thing. But is it? In society at large, nerds are law-abiding, caring, fundamentally good folk who keep the wheels of civilization grinding. But do we need them...
Gerry Adams—president of Sinn Féin, the second-largest political party in Northern Ireland—eschewed the recent violence in his home country in a speech at a packed Institute of Politics last night. “The pathway forward is a strong one toward peace and reconciliation,” Adams said. “The story of Ireland was one of death and distress.” Adams last spoke at Harvard in 1994, when Northern Ireland and Sinn Féin—which has been historically associated with the Irish Republican...