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Residents of Cambridge may not know it, but some of the seeds of peace in the Middle East have been sown in their back yards...
Although the upstairs communications area hasbeen newly renovated--complete with recessedlighting and a more open, spacious receptionarea--there is asbestos debris in the basementelectrical room as well as in pipes which runthroughout the building, according to Harvard'sown investigation of the building, a copy of whichwas obtained by The Crimson...
...does not lessen the grandeur of the human intellect to argue that it evolved partly in response to social pressures or that these pressures also produced similar abilities in "lesser" creatures. Instead, the fact that nature may have broadly sown the seeds of consciousness suggests a world enlivened by many different minds. There may even be practical applications. Studies of animal cognition and language have yielded new approaches to communicating with handicapped and autistic children. Some scientists are pondering ways to turn intelligent animals like sea lions and dolphins into research assistants in marine studies or into lifeguards...
...with particularly high expectations of the place since become the most disenchanted. Rather than being a school in which health and balance are rewarded, Harvard instead is a place where the seeds of self-absorption and personal ambition are watered, even if they were not first here sown. For all its claims of excellence, this place is definitely not excellent in human relationships. Too many of us walk through the Yard each winter with excellent minds while our hearts and souls sense the oncoming frost and are forced into hibernation, later uncannily showing signs of rebirth only as Spring Reading...
...seeds of the affair were sown back in 1982 during the Iran-Iraq war, when President Reagan approved a "tilt" to Iraq as part of a campaign to keep either side from dominating the Persian Gulf region. That same year, the Reagan Administration scratched Iraq from its list of countries supporting terrorism and, in 1984, for the first time in 17 years, extended full diplomatic recognition to Saddam Hussein's Baghdad government. During the '80s, the U.S. guaranteed billions of dollars in commodity credits and loans to Iraq, while the CIA began secretly sharing intelligence information with Saddam...