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...share Mahan’s concern, and we worry that the new committees will be used to rubber-stamp University Hall’s proposals instead of genuinely discussing the best ways of moving forward. The Review is no fait accompli; treating it as such will allow last spring’s underwhelming report to serve as the underwhelming standard bearer for a Harvard education over the next several decades...
...hosts through the nuts and bolts of the mise-en-scene of the party before tackling gatherings like tailgates and barbecues. And publicists Lara Shriftman and Elizabeth Harrison bring their expertise in planning bashes for clients like Mercedes-Benz and Cartier to the rest of us with Fete Accompli! (Clarkson Potter) in September. But the best advice of all may be from Elsie de Wolfe's 1913 classic, The House in Good Taste, to be reissued by Rizzoli next month. "The color of [the dining room] should be selected with due consideration of its becomingness to the host or hostess...
...already confident in its answers to moral questions—namely, that such questions are not important and need not be seriously considered before proceeding—and that it merely needs to convince Americans of the intrinsic rightness of its position by presenting them with a fait accompli. Harvard is not alone, though; many scientists elsewhere forge ahead with stem cell research, insensible to ethical objections, and this is justified with the rhetoric of progressivism. Helen M. Blau, director of the Baxter Laboratory in Genetic Pharmacology at Stanford University School of Medicine, frets that as “leaders...
...decisions. In fairness, Summers has not made permanent decisions about Allston yet. But it is difficult to dismiss Professor of German Peter J. Burgard’s concern, expressed to The Crimson after last week’s meeting, that “what we perceive as a fait accompli is being presented to us as if there’s a discussion...
...There was concern that what we perceive as a fait accompli is being presented to us as if there’s a discussion,” he said...