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Cambridge voters head to the polls today to select the newest roster of local government officials, but if trends continue, fewer than a third of the city’s registered voters will cast a ballot...
...independence of the IG - by intimidating any staff that might want to report misgivings - and interfering with its oversight function. In a letter urging Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, to order Hayden to cease his inquiry, Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat and member of the Select Intelligence Committee, said that the CIA's IG was "possibly the most important" of all the IGs because the secretive nature of the CIA's work allowed only limited public accountability. The internal inquiry - which Hayden characterized as a "management review" - appears to have been triggered by complaints from senior operation...
...society.This self-congratulatory student activism, typified by such officious petition-writing, fosters a pernicious habit of moral sloth and validated pride. These bad habits, easily formed and even more easily justified, make our own politics more bitter, more boastful, and less humane. Unsurprisingly, these self-styled moral paragons select an investment bank to impugn—a target fit for the coward or the sycophant too fearful or too flattering not to pander to popular prejudices. Despite the competitive investment-bank recruiting process and their selective hiring, it is de rigueur for Harvard opinion-makers to cast aspersions at them...
...many, Sunday afternoons dredge up the image of gallons of coffee, hours at Lamont, and inexplicable rashes. But for a select few, this past Sunday meant something a little less stressful, something more along the lines of a nice game of…Gaga. What? Don’t worry, non-Jews can play too. So what is Gaga? Michael I. Levin-Gesundheit ’08, one of the organizers of the event, explains. “It’s a form of dodgeball thought to have originated in Israel, usually played in a sandy...
...pair of Harvard captains, one old and one new, will represent the United States at the Women’s Four Nations Cup in Leksland, Sweden. Tri-captain Caitlan Cahow and last year’s co-captain Julie Chu ’07 were selected to the U.S. Women’s Select Team on Tuesday and will travel to Sweden for the five-day tournament, which takes place Nov. 7-11. Both are listed as defensemen on the roster. Cahow’s national team experience dates back to the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, where...