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...College announced yesterday that is has accepted 36 visiting students for the semester from schools shut down by Hurricane Katrina, 11 more students than Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby initially said the College would admit on Sept...
Though only a meager few introductory courses (including History 10a: Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures from Antiquity to 1650) admit it outright in their course titles, nearly all intro courses at Harvard focus on the West. Social Studies 10, Historical Studies A-12, English 10a (and 10b), Ec 10, and Justice, to name a few, stick only to the intellectual, political, historical, and economic achievements of Eurasia and North America (plus the Near East and North Africa during ancient times...
...letter to the HBS community, HBS Dean Jay O. Light wrote that HBS will welcome some second-year MBA students, but it will not admit any first-year students, noting that the schools MBA program had already begun in the first week of September...
...unrecognizable mess.” Most upperclassmen also perceive that the ideals on which History 10a is predicated are bankrupt: the very pretense to isolate a history of the West is artificial and does not reflect the many complicated intercultural interactions that the course’s professors themselves admit have been central. The course in general presents a primitive determinism, as if Western culture were an essence or a spirit which realized itself in the course of two millennia, thus betraying the sophisticated comparative analyses practiced by many Harvard historians...
Soundest of all slept the federal government, as the president strummed a guitar in California, and took until yesterday to admit any degree of responsibility for its failures. Those days of lethal inaction beg the question: have we not learned anything since that lucid September morning...