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...complaints of an injured minority with a reputation for hypochondria are not as effective as the reprimand of unanmious condemnation. In order to adopt a more powerful rhetorical position, the HRC and its peers have to be willing to resist the temptation for didactic speeches about the power of words and school yard bullies...
...Championship is one of thirty conference tournaments that help decide the thirty-one automatic bids to the NCAA Tournament. The one league that does not have a conference tournament is, of course, the Ivy League.Yet there is a chance that league will move away from its outdated stance and adopt a conference tournament. It has taken a preliminary step of forming a sub-committee consisting of four athletic directors from around the league who will look at the idea.This is great news, but still left the league without a tournament this year. So I rode the T to Agannis...
...people in general are more socially conscious, and I think that's going to start filtering down into the apparel industry," says Bass. "Our goal is to start a movement that changes how the apparel industry works. The measure of its success will be how quickly other companies adopt...
Bundy, who served as dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1953 until 1961, once described himself as an “ex-historian.” One wonders whether it’s time for Perret to adopt the “ex” prefix as well. He has substituted ideology for methodology and invective for insight. He habitually uses phrases like “shit in a silk stocking” to describe Cabinet members and high-level aides. Would a count of Perret’s errors this time top McPherson?...
...Business School, a technological trick deactivates wireless when students are in lecture by linking up to their course schedules, and the Law School debated whether to adopt a similar policy last spring...