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...vast waste of energy and general disregard for its own repute, the Graduate Student Council (GSC) decided early this week to ask its constituents the same questions posed at last week’s Faculty meeting, at which the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted a lack of confidence in University President Lawrence H. Summers. What the GSC didn’t ask was whether any of these questions even applied to grad students...
...egalitarian process imposed upon us by the College to distort our view of how societies run best. Nor is it a system designed to paternalistically decide what is fair and unfair consumption based upon income brackets. Rather, dorm life is a system designed to facilitate our studies here. The vast majority of students elect to live in the Houses—and the College provides these accommodations—because they make our lives as students easier to manage; even financial aid recipients have the option of renting off-campus rooms rather than using their aid to pay for room...
...invasion of Iraq. The end result was a complicated combination of fear, anger, and hope: fear of weapons of mass destruction, anger that “they” had attacked us, and hope for a better Iraq. A majority of the nation—and a vast majority of our elected officials—seemed to buy Bush’s story. The rest of us grew angry and frustrated. We waited for some great national discussion, some reasoned debate where “our” leaders would stand up to the administration and challenge Bush?...
...foster country, and will do their utmost to repay that kindness with honest hard work. A crime-rate increase could more appropriately be assigned to the lazy few who are on state benefits without good cause - benefits provided by the taxes paid by the public, including a vast number of immigrants. It's ironic that when those same moaning scroungers end up in the emergency ward with injuries from a drunken fight, they are cared for by foreign-born nurses and doctors. People need to learn more about the prejudices they so steadfastly harbor. Martin Webb Reading, England Back-Channel...
Rivoli excels at making those sorts of unexpected connections. She even finds one between antiglobalization activists and free traders. The opportunities opened up by trade are vast, she argues, but free markets need the correcting mechanism of political activism to keep them in check. True economic progress needs them both. --By Jyoti Thottam