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...United States would not provide reproductive health aid to non-governmental organizations that performed or promoted abortion as a means of family planning. He presented his decision as a conciliatory gesture, arguing that “for too long, international family planning assistance has been…the subject of a back-and-forth debate that has served only to divide us. I have no desire to continue this stale and fruitless debate.” In this claim Obama is half-correct. He has indeed avoided a nuanced debate on this controversial policy, but his firm, agonistic posture...
...Cabinet appointments have been subject to a disappointing vetting process. His forays into foreign affairs produced a very unfortunate comment that America has been "dictating" to other nations...
...motion will go before the full Faculty next Tuesday for a final vote. If approved, the policy would go into effect for next year’s incoming freshmen, the Class of 2013—also the first class that will be uniformly subject to the new General Education requirements...
...Seminar Program—which is entering its 50th year—had already begun to broaden arts-oriented curricular opportunities for freshman. These seminars, which typically are capped at a dozen or so students, provide incoming undergraduates with the chance to engage with faculty while exploring a specific subject. The program strives to emphasize humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences equally. Over the past decade, the program has expanded quickly, growing from 33 courses in the 2000-2001 academic year to 132 this academic year. Recently, it has added more creative arts and studio based courses to its selection...
...discoveries of what it means to be a Harvard student, Isidore M. T. Bethel ’11 applied a standard Harvard skill, a knack for analyzing novels and film, to his video installation piece. The piece features three television screens, each with different repeating loops of film. The subjects, Mary C. Potter ’11 and her father Tom Potter, were first videotaped unscripted, in their normal environment. Their dialogue was then rearranged by Bethel to create a new story. “By reflecting unrehearsed, nonfictional parts of these two people’s lives in fictionalized...