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...phrase in question, perverse as it is, was likely meant to encourage Harvard women to aim for great career heights. To be sure, undergraduate women at Harvard are capable of becoming CEOs (and a number of them do). The image of high heels, however, is hardly an appropriate symbol of that professional aspiration...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Lay Off The Heels, WIB | 10/23/2007 | See Source »

...realized that changed the way I think about this country.” The lecture is named after Robert Coles ’50, who is a professor of psychiatry and medical humanities, to honor him for his commitment to social service. “Bob is the right symbol to be recognized,” Edelman said afterwards. Coles, whom Razon called one of PBHA’s most famous alumni, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for his book “Children of Crisis” and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998. Francis S. Assaf...

Author: By Rebecca A. Schuetz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: PBHA Kicks Off Alumni Weekend | 10/22/2007 | See Source »

...party has also proposed banning Muslims from erecting minarets, which Schlüer says is "a political symbol." More than 50,000 people have already signed that petition. And Schlüer says the party is keen to abolish a federal law banning racial incitement and discrimination, and to ban Muslim girls from wearing headscarves in public schools. "In school we want to see their faces," Schlüer says, adding: "And it is part of our constitution that everybody is equal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immigration Dominates Swiss Vote | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...have often admired Klein's thoughts, but in "Inflating a Little Man" he missed the mark by a mile. He wrote that Ahmadinejad's "words had no practical import, only symbolic, global import. He has very little real power in Iran." This leaves me incredulous because Ahmadinejad is the mouthpiece for the mullahs, who hold the real power in Iran. They hide behind him, sending him out in the world to do their dirty work, just as they send IEDs to Iraq to kill our soldiers. Ahmadinejad is the symbol of the very real poison emanating from Tehran. Symbols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...silver keys, two seals of the University, the earliest College record book, and the Harvard Charter of 1650: these were the symbols of power transferred from former presidents Summers, Bok, and Rudenstine and Senior Fellow James R. Houghton ’58 to President Drew G. Faust last Friday as she was officially installed. It was a formal, yet ebullient and optimistic day: one for reflecting on the forces that unite this great University and that will propel it to new heights in the future. In this context, the fiery speech that Undergraduate Council President Ryan A. Petersen...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Tactless, But True | 10/17/2007 | See Source »

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