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Harvard’s residential housing and dining system is—for better or worse??the college’s way of coddling its undergraduates. Step outside the Harvard bubble, and students at other colleges are juggling fluctuating rent prices and housing shortages along with student loans, jobs and schoolwork...
...Terror is hypocritical almost to the point of comedy. Clinton could use a few pointers from our current administration before he sullies television news with another of his ignorant rants. At the very least, he should take his dishonest and––worse??–indecorous antics to a more appropriate forum, The New York Times perhaps. His kind isn’t welcome on Fox News. Paul R. Katz ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Mather House...
...Vendetta” is destroyed by sheer pettiness. Need a reason for the world’s collapse into anarchy, a basic premise of the movie’s storyline? Easy, blame it on the Iraq war (“America’s war grew worse and worse?? the script ominously tells us). Need a ready-made authoritarian figure? Make him white, conservative, and religious, and make his party’s symbol the Christian cross. Need targets of discrimination? Easy, make them racial minorities and homosexuals. Need a criminal conspiracy? Easy, use big business...
...Harvard history department: “The Harvard history department doesn’t teach courses like that. We think our students deserve better.” One can only surmise that Ulrich’s criteria for “better” and “worse?? took shape in the stew of postmodern clichés, identity politics, and disdain for the idea of history in the large that has inundated contemporary academic culture and to which Harvard has been as susceptible as any other institution. NORMAN J. LEVITT ’63 New Brunswick...
Kirby’s legacy may be marred by a halting curricular review, fiscal struggles, and an inability to provide meaningful leadership to FAS, but it is more likely—for better or worse??that he will once again be viewed only in the context of Summers. In the end, this could be a case of ironic justice: the legacy of the man always in Summers’ shadow will be defined by his own ouster, the final nail in Summers’ coffin...