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Several students complained that bars would set an unacademic tone for the space, while others said that students should have been consulted in the decision. But the main worry appeared to be that students would no longer be able to access the books in the collection...
Harvard looks to use this game to set a tone for the remainder of the year...
More unsettling to this young writer was the dismissive tone of the Democrats’ official response to keynote speaker and Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty’s speech. After Governor Pawlenty delivered a two-part sermon to the choir on the perils of health-care reform and the importance of retaining certain traditional Judeo-Christian morals, Democratic National Committee spokesman Hari Sevugan offered the following statement: “It looks like Tim Pawlenty isn’t even going to offer the pretense of being anything but an extreme right-wing radical anymore. At least it?...
Although Shevugan may be accurate regarding Pawlenty’s political stance, he chose an inappropriate tone for a discussion on “American values.” The response relegated a popular governor’s opinions to the wilderness of unworthy words and offered no counterpoints to Pawlenty’s take on the country’s moral path...
...Alisha D. Ramos ’12, editor-in-chief of the Voice, called the piece an “outrageous” fabrication. On the Voice blog yesterday afternoon, Ramos denied accusations that the Voice planned to stalk Watson, emphasizing the purposefully “facetious” tone of the live updates and the happenstance nature of a blurry photograph of Watson leaving Harvard stadium that was posted on the blog the night of the game...