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...that should never again be divided into a free West and an oppressed East. They don't make them like that anymore, of course, and there is a conventional explanation why. In the 50 years after World War II, the state of Europe demanded men and women with ideas vital enough to remake a broken Continent and rebuild its broken economies. That work fit for heroes, one might suppose, is done. Europe is prosperous and free; it needs leaders less than managers. Yet if the last few weeks proved anything, it is surely that this comfortable idea is an illusion...
...German and of Comparative Literature Judith Ryan to place yet another no-confidence motion on the docket of the Feb. 28 Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) meeting is an unfortunate, though not unanticipated, one. At best, such a vote will be a dilatory and untimely distraction from more vital issues facing the Faculty—a dean search, the curricular review, and the Allston expansion among them; at worst, the motion can be seen as a crass power grab in the wake of the Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s resignation.It is no secret that...
...from such a program. Students who never make it to college represent a great untapped wealth of intelligence. If America is to maintain its position as the world leader in science and technology, it will need all the help it can muster, and these overlooked students can play a vital role. By enlarging the available talent pool for high-tech jobs and increasing the brain power working to solve important problems like global warming, the proposed scholarships help to improve life for all and to keep the economy strong. A vibrant economy and a healthy middle class are essential...
Some schools have raised questions over the languages being considered “vital to national security,” Day said...
...further, to act on genuine, substantive, and specific grievances when they exist. But the continued venting of general, undirected dissatisfaction with Summers’ brusqueness, his abruptness, or any of his acknowledged idiosyncrasies, is a disservice to the entire Harvard community. A distracted Faculty must stop neglecting the vital business of forging ahead with the HCCR, finding a new dean of the Faculty, and rehabilitating the finances of the debt-laden FAS budget, among other things. We hope that at the next Faculty meeting, instead of walking out on the final minutes of the discussion which centered on the HCCR...