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...really an illusion, and that a choice among the Square’s three Starbucks franchises doesn’t amount to much free choice at all. As the reality of Harvard life hit me with the subtlety of Memorial Church’s daily 8:45 a.m. wake-up call, a trip off-campus suddenly seemed ludicrous.When it comes to improving the state of mind of Harvard’s notoriously stressed-out student body, conventional wisdom is simple. A pricey cocktail of campus life initiatives geared at making it easy for Harvard students to unwind here in Cambridge...
...desperate need of policies that address the issues of poverty, deteriorating infrastructure and environmental degradation. Unless U.S. leaders devise a dramatic new approach for coping with hurricane disasters, we are destined to be devastated by many more Katrinas. We can only hope that this was the ultimate wake-up call. Michael F. Hamant Tucson, Arizona...
...there is a silver lining to Katrina and the botched efforts to help its victims, it is that we have got our wake-up call. Americans elected an insulated, not too astute President who is surrounded by yes-men and -women. His inflexibility cripples him when events beyond his control demand a new direction...
...desperate need of policies that address the issues of poverty, deteriorating infrastructure and environmental degradation. Unless America's leaders devise a dramatic new approach for coping with hurricane disasters, we are destined to be devastated by many more Katrinas. We can only hope that this was the ultimate wake-up call. Michael F. Hamant Tucson, Arizona, U.S. I am a native New Orleanian, who evacuated the city before the horror. Now, as I sit in San Diego, I try not to hate those responsible for the botched response to the hurricane. I've been listening to national politicians who state...
...ghastly as the hurricane catastrophe has been, perhaps it is the very wake-up call that the U.S. and President Bush need to make them address the real possibility of devastation caused by global warming and what should be done about it-now. Hally Hardie St. Ives, England...