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...after yesterday’s meeting, Summers said he understood professors’ concerns...
...Americans must make the same choice that Chicago made in 1871. Those common-sense Midwesterners understood that wood construction represented the past, and likewise today, we must rethink solutions for the future. Congress, sequestered far away in Washington D.C., may not understand or may have shied away from these realities, but the American people must consider them. We must aspire to become a model for sustainability that the rest of the world can look to in the coming century. Cities around the world continue to copy Chicago, and we can only hope that countries will be copying our blueprint...
...understood that better than Merchant. This season, after three years of watching the senior classes before them play only for pride down the stretch, Merchant and his classmates had hoped to finally make winning part of the Crimson tradition as well. But it quickly became apparent that the time for Harvard’s first men’s basketball championship was not this year...
...Laura Bushism, “There is nothing political about American literature.” With anti-Americanism spreading and war stewing, the librarian-turned-First Lady has turned to poetry readings and literature symposia to revive “the crux of what America is.” Understood in these terms, poetry can feed the American soul, so long as it does not question...
...identifies poets as the “conscience of our culture,” responsible for providing the clarity that neither the government nor the news media is capable of. Their poems are not only acts of civic protest, but also affirmations of the immediate social power of literature; understood in this manner, literature does not provide a haven from our world, but a way to cultivate the sympathies necessary to being better citizens in it. What is revolutionary about this kind of poetry is that it doesn’t discriminate between form and function: a precisely placed word...