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...that a move to a Yale-style housing system—in which first-years would be placed in Houses based on their first-year entryways—would prove damaging to the experience of Harvard students, and particularly minority students, for a number of reasons. Many Harvard students select their blocking groups and roommates based on relationships they have formed through some sort of extracurricular activity. The shared interests of these rooming groups nurture individuals and provide for their personal development, easing the mental stress of college life. To force students to live with whomever was randomly assigned...
Each year, Harvard will select 25 Zuckerman fellows from a national pool of students who are pursuing or have earned professional degree in law, business or medicine but are interested in a degree at Harvard’s School of Education, School of Public Health or Kennedy School of Government...
This year’s Heps were pushed back a week, so the invitational this past weekend coincided with most of the other conference championships that are taking place this weekend. Because of this, the field mostly consisted of Ivy League teams and a select number of other competitors whose conferences did not have their league tournaments this weekend...
...Israeli assassination attempt in 2002, will now look increasingly to powerful Hamas moneyman Khaled Meshaal for instructions and financial support. The group's chief fund raiser, who splits his time between Qatar and Syria, has become more assertive. When political leaders in Gaza were about to select a moderate as their new chief, he ordered them to delay the appointment. But Meshaal could in some ways be a moderating influence on the Gaza fighters. He is resisting pressure from some who, enraged by the Bush-Sharon deal, want to strike U.S. interests in the Middle East. Meshaal is said...
...power of dictatorship to a top Shi'ite cleric. Kadivar argues that because the concept was conceived by clerics rather than by Allah, it cannot be considered sacred or infallible. And if clerics have no God-given right to rule, he says, that means that Muslims may freely select their government in a democratic Islamic republic. Kadivar has also formulated a theory on why terrorism is forbidden in Islam--an indirect reproach to an Iranian regime that is widely accused of backing terrorist groups...