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...status quo membership is unacceptable. Few students even realize the composition of the Board, which is limited to a handful of faculty and several senior administrators. A judicial body so removed from the student body cannot help but be out of touch with the student body, a symptom student involvement would reduce...
...made desperate by U.S. progress in Iraq. "The more successful we are on the ground, the more these killers will react," the President said Monday. But it remains to be seen whether Iraqis - and Americans - are ready to embrace the idea that the deteriorating security situation is a symptom of progress. And the fact that the scale, frequency and tactical sophistication of the attacks is increasing suggests that the Iraqi insurgents have grown in confidence and organizational ability in the six months since Baghdad fell. The daily average number of attacks on U.S. forces has risen from...
...support our country’s armed forces. Harvard’s antidiscrimination policy may have been made with the best of intentions, but ROTC's presence would not imply Harvard’s official imprimatur, and would hardly intimidate or threaten homosexuals on campus—the symptom the policy seeks to quash...
...like “safe area,” ostensibly implying the protection of said area by U.N. troops, become worthless, as happened in 1995’s terrifying massacre at Srebrenica. When shots are fired, U.N. blue helmets have a nasty habit of staying inside the barracks, a symptom of a fuzzy, multinational chain of command and bizarre diplomatic doublespeak...
...senses, one which both loses itself in its own madness and beauty. Wainwright’s ornate gestures are overtures to himself; courting his past, his influences and his loves—not the least of which is himself. This ode to himself is also a symptom of ecstatic and enviable madness—as he himself has said only half jokingly, “I think I’m slightly schizophrenic...