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Earlier this week, military officials reported that the Pentagon is drawing up plans to plant news stories abroad in an effort to increase pro-American sentiment in both friendly and unfriendly countries. Distributing information about America and its foreign policy has usually fallen to the State Department, while the Department of Defense has usually concerned itself solely with tactical and military matters. While this shift in responsibilities would be undesirable on its own, it is even more startling that the Pentagon plans to disseminate false stories along with those that are true...
This desire for cultivation of better world citizens, a sentiment Summers has also expressed, relates in a practical sense to initiatives to improve study abroad options and to intiatives to reform the Core. Most feel that students’ ability to study abroad is destined to improve. Undergraduate Council President Sujean S. Lee ’03 remarks, “The University has recognized the importance of the cultural immersion that you gain from study abroad...
...Gomes says. “It will come because [students] insist upon it.” Gomes jokes that one of his colleagues used to say that “it would be wonderful if students just send in their money and stay at home.” The sentiment behind the humor, he says, is that “students are not an immediately rewarding commodity” and professors prioritize publishing above guiding undergraduates...
...exploitation of patriotic sentiment for private gain is hardly new. But the attacks were a national tragedy, one that demands a quiet determination to remember those who died. Commercializing their sacrifices is a sure way of turning the ineffable into the merely ordinary--and making something ordinary is the first step to forgetting...
Lewis says he believes that this is what has happened at Harvard—a sentiment shared by the roughly three dozen Faculty and administrators interviewed for this article...