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...aware that 9/11 made it likely they would be called to account for "their past record." And it took the threat of retaliation after the attacks on the U.S. homeland to get their attention. "I think the documents indicate that that's what speaks to them - force. Force and serious threats of force," Fitton says...
...more to broaden their horizons and dispel the “provincialism” that too often seems to characterize them. By all means. Let young Americans spend more time in other countries. Let them travel, and let them learn foreign languages by the dozen. But if one is serious about maintaining America’s position as the world’s leader in higher education, “study abroad” as it is currently understood is not the answer; the world is too competitive a place to have students wasting a quarter of their college years...
Ellwood added that the school "does not make judgments about the content of working papers before posting. Academic work is best judged in the serious give and take of intellectual and scholarly debate...
...recognize that our policy may carry serious ramifications for Harvard students who are arrested on drug charges. As one reader told us in an e-mail: “the stories that you have published are online and free information for anyone competent to run google searches. This means that for your 2 minutes of glory as journalists and editors, students at Harvard have a hugely compromised professional life.” The reader added that “absolutely no good can come from publishing the students’ names...
...Geological Survey predicts there is up to a 40% chance that a quake of magnitude 6.0 or greater will hit here in the next 50 years, causing serious damage to communities from Memphis to St. Louis. That's especially bad news for Memphis, the biggest urban center in the region. In January, Memphis was ranked second least-prepared (after Louisville, Ky.) among 30 big cities studied by the American Disaster Preparedness Foundation. "Memphis has an aging infrastructure and many of its large buildings, including unreinforced schools and fire and police stations, are particularly fragile," U.S.Geological Survey geologist Eugene Schweig testified...