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...Gaulle ... opened a campaign to recapture power. "The tide goes up and down," said De Gaulle. "Perhaps it is in the course of nature that a period of clear and gigantic efforts should be followed by a period of obscure fumbling. But times are too difficult, life too uncertain, the world too hard to enable one to vegetate too long in the darkness without risk of succumbing." Then De Gaulle lashed out against the French parliamentary system and the new constitution. Said he: "The day is coming when ... the immense mass of the French will rally to France...
...efforts on informing students about issues that more directly affect them. At the end of last night’s meeting, CLC Chair Sopen B. Shah ’08 thanked her committee members for a semester of hard work, even while the committee’s future was uncertain and its budget was reduced. “Circumstances surrounding our mission and our existence made it challenging,” she said. —Staff writer Rachel L. Pollack can be reached at rpollack@fas.harvard.edu
...Peer Advising Program, explained that the selection team was confident in the ability of PAFs it accepted early, based on the combined recommendations of deans and SAB members and on their applications. Although the time and the volume of applications put unexpected pressure on process, he said he was uncertain that there was ever a plan to interview all applicants. It didn’t seem necessary, he said, “to interview people when you already know you are going to accept them.”That approach is precisely the problem: acceptances should only be decided when...
...North Korea or even acknowledge the obvious brutality of that regime's policies. It has been said that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Whereas officials in Washington have at least repeatedly spoken out against Pyongyang in no uncertain words, those in Seoul have exhibited criminal indifference to heinous and unnecessary suffering. Good people doing nothing? They cannot even be called good. Hancho C. Kim Seoul Obsolete Monarchy Re your thought-provoking report "Battle of Wills" [May 1] on the political turmoil in Nepal: The country...
More than 60 years after autism was first described by American psychiatrist Leo Kanner, there are still more questions than answers about this complex disorder. Its causes are still uncertain, as are the reasons for the rapidly rising incidence of autism in the U.S., Japan, England, Denmark and France. But slowly, steadily, many myths about autism are falling away, as scientists get a better picture of what's going on in the bodies and brains of people with autism and as more of those who are profoundly affected, like Hannah, are able to give voice to their experience. Among...