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...There’s much more clarity now about what’s legal and not legal, what’s advisable and not advisable, in terms of how faculty and students interact,” Marine said.Putnam’s retrospective echoed a similar sentiment. “The women who are coming back to celebrate their 25th represent that cohort in American life as we were moving from one oldermale-dominated world into a world that is more gender-blind,” Putnam said.—Staff writer Edward-Michael Dussom can be reached...
...targets or, worse, killed innocent civilians. The News, a Pakistani daily, reported recently that 60 strikes since early 2006 had killed 687 civilians and only 14 al-Qaeda leaders, a ratio few Pakistanis would find acceptable. The campaign, in fact, may be contributing to a swelling of anti-American sentiment in Pakistan and weakening the fragile government of President Asif Ali Zardari...
...intellectual environment is so vibrant,” Tacconi said. “I really don’t think I could have written my book without it.”Machtelt Israels, a fellow in 2004-2005 from the University of Amsterdam, echoed Tacconi’s sentiment about the value of bringing scholars from across disciplines and countries together.“I think the place is a kind of arcadia,” Israels said. “Once you’ve got in there, you’re part of a wonderful humanist Renaissance-studying...
...military: the University president honors those who serve, but other segments of the community limit the recognition they receive for doing so. This complicated balancing act is the result of a shift in American attitudes toward the military. When Harvard banned on-campus recruiting in 1969, anti-military sentiment ran deep in leftist circles. Today, though, even the ardent liberals of Harvard’s faculty are quick to praise the valor of service, saying that the decision not to recognize ROTC is reflective only of their commitment to civil rights. As a result, Harvard’s contemporary opposition...
...Sometime in the recent past—and perhaps as a result of the Sept. 11 attacks—prevailing non-faculty sentiment at Harvard seems to have shifted strongly in favor of the military...