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...Activism by minority students and ethnic organizations rose significantly this year. But unlike in the late 1960s, students of many backgrounds took on a range of unrelated causes. And their voices were raised less often against the University establishment and more against forces in the wider world...
...think what marks him as a man as opposed to a scholar is that he grew up... surrounded, on the immediate stage, by Bengali poets, Sanskrit scholars and classical Indian dancers and, on the wider stage, by poverty and famine," wrote Martha Chen, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government and a close personal friend...
...competition for campus space--namely building space--has emerged as one of the overarching issues this past year. Among the stew of considerations: The University has already taken over ownership of the Hasty Pudding building, which will almost certainly force out the venerable social organization and make room for wider student use. The new Radcliffe Institute may take over Agassiz and Byerly Halls, as well as move graduate students out of the Cronkhite Center. Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, in his annual letter to the Faculty, noted that the University is considering eventually repossessing the Inn at Harvard...
...snag a box from the vending machine, and soon no one could focus on the work at hand. At first the requests were tentative, the carton-shaking uninspired. But soon we ate communally, each warming the mushy lozenges as we reached deeper in, stretching the mouth of the box wider, happy to mush one in pursuit of a happy handful...
...expectancy in some African countries," said Murray, "is dropping back to levels we haven't seen in advanced countries since medieval times." These nations lack the facilities, the funds and organization to construct a society that can take care of its own. The United States, where the issue of wider health coverage makes frequent but often short-lived blips on the political radar (Bradley, Hillary before him), has the resources. For the present, though, it lacks the political will to spread them around a little better...