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...students’ interests and Matt Sundquist will finally get a girlfriend...Both are going to require a lot of work.” —UC President Ryan A. Petersen '08 “I hope that the Harvard community will begin to show some serious concern for the fate of the Iraqi students and faculty whose lives are threatened. It is not a matter of abstract sympathy alone; we have it in our power and our immense resources to help in direct, practical ways.” —Cogan University Professor Stephen...
...China faces many serious drawbacks. Its economy depends on trade with the U.S., even though the U.S. has an unmanageable trade deficit with China. Although China had been a superpower, that was 4,000 years ago. China the new superpower? That is wishful thinking. It is only the beginning of the 21st century, and many challenges lie ahead. William F. VanGelder Santa Maria, California...
...Harvard should be extremely wary of admitting or hiring anyone who has a credible, public record of...serious violations of human rights or humanitarian law,” said Darryl C. Y. Li ’01, a PhD student in anthropology and human rights and a member of Harvard’s Alliance for Justice in the Middle East. “We are concerned because [Ashkenazi] was the commander of specific units that committed specific abuses against specific victims...
...presidential search committee met yesterday afternoon with Harvard’s alumni overseers. But after a closed-doors session inside Loeb House, it appeared last night that the University was not ready to name a permanent successor to Lawrence H. Summers.In recent days, the committee had been most seriously considering Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust for the presidency, according to two sources familiar with the search committee’s activities. If the committee has agreed on a president, Faust would likely be the search panel’s choice, according to the two individuals. But the committee could...
...Joseph Biden has some company - it turns out serious political gaffes aren't just for bumbling American presidential candidates. On Jan. 27 Japan's Health Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa gave a speech on the country's shrinking population in which he referred to Japanese women of childbearing age as "baby-making machines." He went onto explain that arresting population decline was difficult "because the number of baby-making machines and devices is fixed [in the population]; all we can do is ask them to do their best per head." The 71-year-old Yanagisawa did add, however, "that...