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...worked in Britain for 61/2 years and enjoy following its political scene. I am always amazed by how easily senior politicians can lose their jobs once problems are reported in the papers-regardless of whether the politicians are capable. I am not a fan of Blair's, but I wish he could stay on as Prime Minister. After he leaves office, I hope he can serve like Al Gore, as an environmentalist and observer of world politics. Yan Wang, Cardiff, Wales...
...think [the protagonist] is bound to wish that it had never happened. The occupation has been a disaster from the very first day, and I speak as one who really wanted it once it had started--really wanted it to succeed. So I guess it would be a darker novel, because I don't see much virtue in staying or in running...
...like to see student and faculty painting and sculpture studios hard against biotech lab space. My wish is for a museum with gems of modern and contemporary art and space for experimental recent work by visiting artists, students, and faculty. There should be theatre at the level of the best of the American Repertory Theatre and a full range of amateur performing art. We’ll need film spaces for viewing the fabulous Harvard Film Archive as well as new and unusual work. We will need faculty, courses, and resources commensurate with student demand...
...area where my young students were eager to hear tales of “Old Harvard” about rowdy jocks in Kirkland, Master’s Sherries in Lowell, bohemians in the Adams House pool, and popped collars in Eliot. More than a few expressed the wish that they could have known that Harvard...
...there is also a new Harvard that I wish I had known: a Harvard that is about to inaugurate its first female President; a Harvard that has a woman leading the venerable Government department; and a Harvard where the formerly stodgy, all-male department that I graduated from now offers a class on gender and politics in which a third of the students are male...