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...Hylton. “She has had such a huge impact on the Law School, and we felt it was a nice way to wrap up our time here.” In some circles, Kagan is considered one of the most influential law school deans in recent memory. Upon her departure for the Solicitor General’s office, Kagan left a legacy of reform, through which she spearheaded the Law School’s effort to reinvent the student experience. Compared to other top-tier schools, Harvard had sometimes been perceived as overly competitive and unwelcoming...
...Nonetheless, losing players is something to be avoided, and Harvard coaches face the especially difficult task of attracting and retaining athletes without the mechanism of the athletic scholarship. Whereas financial aid contingent upon athletic participation is a powerful incentive used by schools across the country, the ban on such scholarships in the Ivy League means that coaching staff must rely on other tactics...
...writing to express my deep indignation upon hearing that our prestigious university’s most sacred of structures, the Harvard Faculty Club, will soon be profaned. I fear that this hallowed hall—once the very epicenter of intellectual conversation and civilized debate—will now become the stomping grounds for this university’s lowest specimen of vermin: students...
Allowing them to commingle with your heralded patrons threatens to upend the fundamental values upon which this University was built. When these ruffians invade, with their disc jockeys and general enthusiasm for life, our last bastion of civilized society will sadly cease to exist...
...that methods like waterboarding or sleep deprivation are an essential tool needed to pry vital intelligence from terrorists who otherwise refused to cooperate with their captors. Last month he said "the enhanced interrogation program" stopped "a great many" 9/11-like attacks. "I've seen a report that was written, based upon the intelligence that we collected then, that itemizes the specific attacks that were stopped by virtue of what we learned through those programs," Cheney said to CNN, adding that its contents are "still classified" and can't be detailed. (See pictures of life inside Guantanamo...