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...woken me up." When they roll back to camp safely, the relief among the soldiers on patrol is palpable. They were lucky that dayno attacks, no IEDs. "I'm no hero. I don't want no Purple Heart," she says. "I just want to make it back without a scratch...
...South Africa, and tobacco stock—all these decisions were made on an ad hoc basis. This “Bok system” has several problems. First, the “exceptional circumstances” criteria for divestment forces the ethical responsibility debate to be rehashed from scratch each time a questionable investment is discovered in Harvard’s portfolio. Second, the current system means that reviews often do not occur because they are reactionary. This means the overall process is slow and arduous. For instance, Congress’ declaration of genocide in Sudan was not enough...
...moves with a kind of effortless and powerful grace, trailing scarves, pins, and beads.Mallardi is a lecturer on the dramatic arts at Harvard. She’s not a taskmaster, but in four decades of teaching at Harvard and Radcliffe, during which she virtually built the dance program from scratch, she’s learned that art is a task, first and foremost.With an elegance particular to matron dancers, Mallardi speaks of her life with a combination of grace and wry humor. Her stories flow from convivial to grave, from focused to tangential. She spent her childhood in the Bronx...
...free wireless Internet access throughout the entire city. Harvard and MIT have aided Cambridge in its planning of the project by offering technical expertise. The two schools will also incorporate their existing wireless infrastructures into the new network so that the city will not have to start from scratch in creating coverage for the entire city. Free citywide wireless cannot come soon enough. While the free wireless Internet may make only a marginal difference in the cyber lives of Harvard students, whose dorms, libraries, and lecture halls are already hooked-up havens of Facebooking, Cantabrigians who might not be able...
...review, including the new general education system, would begin to come before the Faculty this spring. The HCCR has been considered extensively, and should not be impeded by the search for a dean at such an advanced stage. Furthermore, short of catastrophically halting the review and starting from scratch, it would be difficult for a new dean to put his or her stamp on a review that has already progressed...