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...Postmodern views about text and communities aside, the fact of the matter is that few Harvard students can contemplate the enormity of the war—especially when delivered via news alerts on an iPhone screen—when it directly affects so few of us. The supposed purpose of General Education is to focus on “the real-world applications of a liberal arts education.” Despite this agenda, the University and University Council administrations have done little to foster civic participation among its students...
...list with 2006’s. Forty-four Harvard students were interviewed for the study. Only one of them, according to Sperling, said they did not trust University Health Services. The report incorporated surveys of student health centers as well as feedback from students, which was solicited via Facebook, Sperling said. Jim Daniels, vice president of marketing at Trojan, praised the Ivy League’s newly crowned sultans of STD-suppression. “I think Harvard should be very proud [of] being in the top 10,” Daniels said in an interview...
...addition to trumpeting their collaboration, both German and U.S. officials have seized on the case to push for the implementation of controversial eavesdropping measures, including greater powers of electronic surveillance. In Germany, Schaeuble is arguing for measures that would include the secret installation of spying software via the Internet on suspects' personal computers in order to monitor their communications. "The experts agree that terrorists communicate with each other more and more through the Internet," he told reporters on the day of the arrests. "Therefore, in exceptional cases, we need to have the power to get into computers." But the proposal...
...Germany too, an opposition leader has pointed out that the case was in fact broken without any extraordinary eavesdropping powers. Much of the sleuthing, after the first break in the case, was done the old-fashioned way - via in-person, on-the-ground surveillance. Off and on during the past nine months the suspects knew they were being watched. At one point, a suspect even stopped at a traffic light, got out of his car, and slashed the tires of the car behind him to thwart the German agents who were following him. One of the suspects, less than discreetly...
...chairman called a rare meeting, inviting all interested parties - via the trusted local method, a placard posted on the bus stop - to gather on a Saturday morning at the home of the chairman. Five people showed up. But their proposed solution to the potholed road - taking up a collection to fund repairs - will probably meet the same fate as Igor Petrovich's plans for the pond...