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...Ryan McCaffrey’s December 13 op-ed, “The Wronging of a Dictator,” embodied an unforgivable flaw of the brutal dictator he eulogized, Augusto Pinochet: arrogance that attempts to excuse inhuman brutality in the name of ideological purity...
...Ryan says that “it is often thought to be good to have someone quite new to it who can bring a fresh perspective.” But, she adds, “on the other hand, you don’t want somebody who is going to seriously misjudge the institution...
...shuttles the Undergraduate Council (UC) has provided in the past have been ineffective—shuttles were late, filled up too quickly, or did not have adequate space for luggage—council members are debating whether these services are a council responsibility at all. Incoming UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 said that he is skeptical about expanding the council’s responsibilities beyond what it can handle. “I think we have a responsibility that when we put on services, we follow through on them,” he said...
...Summers announced his resignation in February, days before the Faculty was set to vote on a second no-confidence motion. Summers lost the first 218-185. An outspoken critic of Summers and the sponsor of the second no-confidence vote, Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, wrote in an e-mail that she was not surprised by BusinessWeek’s ranking. “Leadership, in the sense of being persuasive enough to motivate others to get ‘on board,’” wrote Ryan, “requires patience...
...film drifts into the horror genre where violence is composed as spectacle for shock value. “Flags of Our Fathers,” the Clint Eastwood historical drama about Marines at Iwo Jima, is possibly the most graphic war movie since “Saving Private Ryan.” But since the gore in both films finds its source in a historical event, the viewer doesn’t become skeptical or alienated when body parts start to fly. Gibson’s revisionist take on history is too fanciful to give “Apocalypto?...