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Yesterday, Yom Kippur services were held across campus—Reform Jews congregated at Memorial Church while Conservative services were held at Hillel, and Orthodox Jews gathered to observe the holiday at Burden Hall at the Business School...
...Bellow, and the author of "In Praise of Nepotism" (Doubleday; April). Says his publisher, "Nepotism, the favored treatment of one?s relations, is a custom with infinitely more practitioners than defenders - especially in America, where a 200-year war has been waged against it by the forces of enlightened reform. It offends our sense of fair play and our meritocratic ethos, where what we have is supposed to be earned. But this campaign has been only partially successful. Indeed, so pronounced is the current trend of children of successful and famous people to follow their parents? footsteps in settings from...
President Lawrence H. Summers is centrally placed to restore, reform and remake Harvard—a responsibility that requires his own best intentions and calls upon the wise counsel of the rest of the University. As my own time as an undergraduate winds down, I’d like to share with him the one fundamental insight that I have distilled from my Harvard experience, a sentiment I happen to share with many others who have passed through here. I feel strongly that if any one truth, one iota of Veritas, should guide Harvard under his administration, it should...
...cannot reward our enemies for what they did to us on Sept. 11. I agree. We cannot offer aid of any sort to the terrorism-sponsoring nations of the world until they first renounce terrorism, then expel the terrorist cells within their borders to face world justice, then reform their governments along lines of our choosing. But there must be some provisions for reapproachment, and they involve difficult diplomatic issues that I cannot even begin to imagine. Nevertheless, reapproachment and financial integration must be priorities of our new policy in the region if we are to have hope of avoiding...
...This course is particularly interesting now because the economy appears to be sliding into recession,” Feldstein wrote in an e-mail. “Ec 10 also looks at questions about the environment, health care, welfare reform, and other subjects that I think must be understood by anyone who wants to be a good citizen...