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...have this entire system which puts the entire burden on the veteran,” she says...
...Having testified before Congress twice already and briefed presidential candidate John Edwards on this issue, Bilmes has played an integral role in fighting for veteran care...
...remained a political operator. Peter J. Gomes, the Plummer professor of Christian morals, described Knowles—an amateur dancer—as having “a certain kind of nimbleness, both physical and intellectual.” From his perch in Memorial Church, Gomes, a 40-year veteran of the University, has watched the rise and fall of generations of Harvard leaders...
...veteran of the Marines, and not much older than I, this man had returned from Iraq with a hatred of battle, a love of the bottle, a prosthetic half-of-a-leg, and a mouthful of questions. After asking me this and that about student life, he imparted his own advice: “It comes down to three questions you have to ask yourselves: Who are you? Why are you here? And what’s all this really about?” (gesturing at me, then at the ground, then at the gates of Harvard...
...same time, Harvard at large finds itself in a kind of identity crisis, torn between contrasting visions of what kind of university it will be in this new century. As the returning veteran put it, pointing at the gates, “What is all this really about?” Is it about higher education and its accompanying values, or is it about education for money, power, and prestige...