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ROTC Redux
Despite the intractability of Harvard’s anti-military vendetta, those who look eagerly to the day when the Reserve Officers Training Corps
Harvard Degree, Four Years Early
“What,” goes the self-serving joke, “do you call the students who graduate bottom of their Harvard classes?” “Harvard graduates.” The
Summer School Sham
Harvard is notoriously stingy about granting academic credit for work done at other institutions. For instance, although they are currently
Saddam Soprano
Image is everything—whether you’re a basketball player, a movie star, or an egomaniacal dictator. Saddam Hussein would do well to
Silenced We Stand
When the loudspeaker interrupted the Muzac version of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” I was standing in front of
The Games We Play
Watching President Bush at the United Nations brought to mind the World Cup, the pinnacle event in a sport everyone
Applying Ourselves
This year’s overwhelming dread of fall move-in came in late July. It wasn’t Harvard I feared—who can wait to return
The Writing on the Wall
It was very difficult to miss. For at least a month—late July through early September—the door of the handicap stall
Put Down That Toothbrush
Anton Von Leeuwenhoek is famous for scraping the plaque off the exceedingly dirty teeth of the elderly men of Delft.
Suffering Once Was Enough
When a female is sexually assaulted or harassed, one cannot imagine the physical and emotional ordeal she goes through. Unfortunately,
Apocalypse Now
Although the trauma of last Sept. 11 has faded into the background, Bush has not loosened his stranglehold on public
More Than A Bunkmate
John F. Kennedy ’40 had one. Bill Gates, Class of 1977, had one. Almost all of the incoming first-years have
A Tale of Two Cambridges
Last semester I was on hiatus over at the other Cambridge, the one where pants are referred to as trousers
In Defense of Unilateralism
In our times, “unilateralist” has become a dirty word, an insult on par with “belligerent aggressor” and a refrain of
Our Hearts of Darkness
What would we do if Europe was in ruins? Imagine, for a moment, that anarchy reigned in central Europe and
