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...Curricular Review process gives us is the perfect opportunity to engage rather than avoid these impediments. In this time of moral and cultural pluralism, we hesitate to connect education with morality, but it has arguably never been more important for Harvard to explicitly make this fundamental connection. I applaud the Committee’s efforts to simplify the curriculum and put more faith in student choice. But should the study of ethics really be a choice? We can “strongly recommend” that students take some class on ethics, but, even if the majority would heed such...
...declared Banerji, a fellow Team Zebra blogger, “to be the winner of the Presidential debate” and called “a close tie” between Lee and Riley for the “winner of the VP debate.” While I applaud Banerji and Lee on their awards, let’s hope that, in the future, clumsy moderators concede a touch of the spotlight to the candidates whom the audience came to watch...
...aggressive, overwhelming response to any uprising. I'm sure that the Kurds and the Shi'ite majority, with the support of the U.S., could deal with the Fallujah insurgents. Sometimes the antidote is a bitter pill to swallow. David Hicks Duluth, Georgia, U.S. God and Science While I applaud Nobel-prizewinning physicist Eric Cornell's evenhanded call for moderation in the intelligent-design debate [Nov. 14], I long to see an article that examines the causality for the controversy and suggests how it might be resolved. Among my friends who are adherents of the doctrine of God-inspired intelligent design...
...beer-handed, first-time freshmen offenders will now be asked to have a chat with their proctors, in what will be a far more constructive and less disciplinary conversation. But small social gatherings will not reinvigorate freshman social life on their own, especially for the less extroverted freshmen. We applaud the FDO’s plans to collaborate with the First-Year Social Committeee (FYSC) to plan more class-wide events. In years past, the FYSC has thrown a mean freshman formal but has done little else in the way of social programming. It has increased its repertoire this year...
...growing number of Chinese taking classes in Western etiquette very informative--and frightening [Nov. 14]. It said more about how much money the U.S. stands to lose, and China to gain, over the next 10 years than about how polite the Chinese may eventually become. Although I wholeheartedly applaud the efforts to teach helpful social skills to the masses, I am a bit concerned about the consequences we business owners here in the U.S. will face with the inevitable success of the Chinese. It's probably time for Americans to order out for classes in Mandarin...