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...consider a sports metaphor: if you learn to hit free throws 90% of the time, that's a stellar basketball achievement. But what if you're so out of shape that you can't run up and down the court? Then your achievement won't matter much in an actual game. Your level of physical fitness is a developed ability: it's both an innate skill that helps determine how well you play basketball and an outcome of playing lots of basketball. Similarly, the more you challenge yourself intellectually, the more you condition your brain; your academic achievements are less...
North Korea is frequently referred to as a "gulag nation," but that must seem like empty rhetoric to the hundreds of thousands of North Koreans who live?and in many cases die?in actual prison camps. Last week, the private U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea released The Hidden Gulag: Exposing North Korea's Prison Camps, a chillingly comprehensive description of Kim Jong Il's hellish penal system. Written by veteran human rights investigator David Hawk, the report draws on interviews with 30 former guards and inmates, including escapees forcibly repatriated from China. Among their revelations...
...response system for students sick from alcohol consumption by securing an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) for UHS. Currently Harvard University Police Department officers escort students who abuse alcohol on campus and need to be taken to UHS. This process not only risks the health of sick students by delaying actual medical response, but since police officers are universal symbols of discipline, it also sends the unintentional message that discipline comes before protecting the health of sick students. In lieu of the current policy, the University should mandate a professional EMT bring sick students to UHS. Even with the added cost...
...movie is less concerned with theoretical problems than with the love life of the liberated woman, but a smattering of actual math shows up in the very spotty script—and those intellectual intermissions were provided by none other than Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross...
Though no plans for further concrete action were made yesterday, some called for a similar meeting to be held with final club leaders. Others insisted a broader meeting, engaging the entire student body, would be necessary to evoke actual change...