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...seriousness, removing the seldom-used red phones and pillows from most student rooms was probably a wise decision, financially and hygienically, on the College’s part. Due to the ubiquity of cell phones nowadays, the vast majority of red phones did little more than gather dust in the darkest corners of student rooms, and Harvard’s re-used pillows often suffered the same fate. We strenuously object, however, to the mode in which the Offices of Residential Life and Physical Resources promulgated their decision...
However, the play of the usually up-tempo Crimson squad was clearly withering in the heat. The quickness that Harvard can usually rely on to beat defensemen down the wing and to win balls in the middle was seldom on display against the Black Bears...
...next Iraqi government and its armed forces will probably be determined by how the Sadr-Hakim battle turns out, as will the decision about how or whether to reconcile with the Sunnis. The Kurds will prefer the aristocratic Hakims to the populist Sadrs, and so will we. But aristocrats seldom win battles of this sort; a strongman who is no fan of democracy or the West might emerge. In any case, the choice will be made by the Iraqis...
...Democracy Italian Style Your report on the state of Italy's democratic insitutions was an illuminating look into the seldom-mentioned dark side of democracy [Aug. 13]. However, I was saddened to see that the story made no mention of a possible remedy. Perhaps the Italians themselves have not developed one. With the political system dominated by octogenarian bureaucrats and Berlusconi- like operators, would it be out of the question for Italy to restore the monarchy? With the exception of the U.S., the most successful democracies, and those least prone to such institutional dystrophy, are monarchies, from the U.K., Canada...
Billy Graham radiates qualities a president seldom encounters during office hours: innocence, guilelessness, sincerity strong as paint stripper. "I'm not an analyzer," he told us. "I've got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don't analyze people." His critics called him gullible, naive to the point of self-delusion; his defenders, of which there were a great many more, called him trusting, always seeing the best in powerful people and frequently eliciting it as a result...