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...Obviously it is easier for Harvard to avoid multi-directional conversations and collaboration with yourselves and with your neighbors in Allston. The questions of land use and the distribution of the benefits and impacts of development may not have simple and obvious answers. But, like in many other aspects of our lives, avoiding a complicated problem doesn’t make it go away. To the contrary, the longer we try to avoid the discussion the harder it can become when we eventually decide to solve...
...During the past several months, the national political debate brought attention to a variety of seemingly intractable problems in areas such as energy use, health care, and the foreclosure crisis. To many, the election of Barack Obama proves our willingness as a nation to confront and solve these challenges. To Harvard professor Michael Sandel, the citizens of America spoke with their votes and “rejected these narrow notions of the common good.” He told Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, in a November 5 column, that this expanded notion of the common good...
...SFJB, though, is in line with our vision of appropriate institutional reform. Options for student representation and more transparent procedures, for example, are qualities that that are appropriate in any fair decision-making body, especially one that handles issues affecting the larger student community. Even with the SFJB in use, general issues with the Ad Board’s structure must continue to be addressed by the Ad Board Review Committee. Proponents of the current Ad Board system maintain that its educational nature differentiates it from a traditional judicial body, yet they fail to recognize that the resources available...
...indirect contact with another person who is infected, each new student who is vaccinated will decrease the chances of infection for the entire community. On a large enough scale, even vaccinated people benefit from others getting the shot, because it limits the number of human vessels the flu can use as a base to mutate into new forms. Some economists have argued that, under some conditions, each flu shot reduces the number of people at risk for infection by 1.5. In the extreme case, we could collectively push the flu to the brink of extinction through vaccination...
...Another former opposition activist, Kazimierz Kutz, now a filmmaker and member of parliament also defends the general. "If not for the martial law," Kutz argues, "there would have been many more victims. Had Solidarity started to fight, the army would have had to use weapons and there would have been a massacre. Jaruzelski prevented a real civil war." Kutz was interned during the martial law and his pregnant wife suffered a miscarriage after having searched prisons to find her husband. Despite his personal tragedy, Kutz can still see merit in the crackdown, which, he says, stopped radicals and allowed moderates...