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...fifth day in detention, I was taken to court. En route, Moyo took me to a café for my first meal since my arrest. I was amazed to see an English breakfast on offer: sausages, eggs, toast, coffee. I hungrily ordered and sat down--only to see Moyo sit at an adjacent table. I beckoned to him, but, head down, he demurred. A man asked to share my table and introduced himself as a manager for the Christian relief organization World Vision. I asked him about this year's harvest. "There's zero," he said. "No crop. Millions of hungry...
There’s a larger lesson here, however, than where not to plant trees: Optimism alone will not slow climate change. The Gaia hypothesis, taken to an extreme, implies that humans can sit back and watch the Earth warm, and eventually the earth will respond and restore itself. The view is characteristic of many individuals’ (and nations’) attitudes today. True, the earth will respond, but when it’s finished responding, it won’t look anything like the earth we have now. By now, you’ve probably heard the litany...
...best way for us to learn from each other is merely to sit down and talk. Though Harvard seems to be set apart from the real world at times, we all still come from the real world and carry our outside notions about different issues, including race. It doesn’t help when talking about these issues seems to be taboo. Though conversations about race should not consume the lives of students, we should still be willing to talk frankly with members of other racial groups about issues regarding race and how they affect...
...makes no secret of his plans to retain power in a different guise. He has become chairman of the board of trustees of the PDP, and from that position he could control nominations for government positions and even policy and strategy. As one Western diplomat said, "He intends to sit in the passenger seat giving advice and ready to grab the wheel if Nigeria goes off course...
With Yardfest right around the corner, FM decided to sit down with the social programming gurus themselves, College Events Board (CEB) Chair S. Adam Goldenberg ’08 and Vice-Chair C. Kai Wu ’09.1. Fifteen Minutes: What are the most significant difference between this year’s and last year’s Yardfest?S. Adam Goldenberg: The most significant difference is that this year the organization is much more student driven. Last year it was organized by administrators and students that called the Yard Fest committee, it was an ad hoc committee brought...