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Again, I will retreat a bit and qualify: most of the qualms I have with the science and math Cores I’ve taken are basically bureaucratic in nature. I actually loved the lectures in my Quantitative Reasoning Core (Peter Ellison’s “Counting People”), and I was happy to absorb what I could of my Science A (again, the contrarian in me decided to protest the Core, and so I took Earth and Planetary Sciences 5, which was fascinating, but you can only imagine how well that midterm went...
...clashes with riot police. Would this show of force bring a government that seems ever more out of touch to its knees? As street sweepers cleaned up after Saturday's throngs, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was already deep in discussion about how to calibrate a response between outright retreat from an unpopular step toward greater labor flexibility and holding a tough line. "The government is ready for dialogue," President Jacques Chirac said on Friday, "and I hope this will start as quickly as possible." And not a moment too soon. France is in another bout of revolt against...
...speak about sociopolitical issues—specific to women or not. It should be a place where students can receive counseling about sexual and health issues—eating disorders, mental wellness, and safe sex. It should be a place where students can go to just hang out, to retreat from the crunch of Harvard Yard...
...sentence [I write] to think of all possible outcomes of people’s interpretation,” he said.“Sometimes we have to take a stand, sometimes we have to get out of the ivory tower, and within the next week, I hope I can retreat.”—Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...horrified elders watched, Greene's comrades shot dead the assailant--later identified as Abdul Karim, a villager thought to be in his late teens or early 20s--then beat a hasty retreat under the crackle of gunfire. Within hours, the wounded Greene had been airlifted to the U.S. Army hospital in Landstuhl, Germany, where doctors reported late last week that he was in stable but serious condition. He faces "a very long and protracted recovery," says Dr. Catherine Gray, a Canadian Forces medic in Germany...