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...high, this team of academic warriors keeps running into brick walls. In January, the Harvard lawyers lost their Supreme Court case, failing to convince Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and co. that a 1998 bill extending the term of an author’s copyright was not only unconstitutional, but archaic for an information...
...administration which (with varying degrees of subtlety) has to date been credited with a conspiratorial firing, a nefarious pre-registration scheme and exacerbating a mental health crisis. But some changes benefit students, and skepticism shouldn’t obscure the merits of updating Harvard’s archaic academic calendar. The Crimson Staff, for example, said recently that getting bogged down with term papers and take-home projects after winter holidays is “leisurely,” offering students “plenty of time” to sample fine wines, ponder life, maybe take long, windy walks...
Fittingly, The Last Samurai is a movie about men fighting to protect their archaic way of life. Their customs stand no chance of surviving. But the samurai fight on anyway, barreling into battle with their swords drawn against the cannons and artillery guns that boom into the future. At press time, Samurai had earned $98 million in theaters; and according to BigChampagne, about 49,000 copies are bouncing around on the Internet, for free. With reporting by Desa Philadelphia/Los Angeles, Matthew Forney/Shanghai, Robert Horn/Bangkok, Joyce Huang/Taipei, Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow, Sara Rajan/New Delhi and Grant Rosenberg/Paris
Some of the headscarf’s opponents have said that it should be banned not because of integration problems, but because it is supposedly archaic and a symbol of the oppression of women. But Muslim women choose to cover their heads to obey God’s command of modesty, which applies to both men and women. If a woman freely chooses to wear the headscarf, it is not oppression. It is simply a matter of obeying a religious...
...archaic A.B. is a reminder that Harvard always tries to be a little bit different and distinguish itself from all of the other institutions in America by emphasizing its tradition. If Harvard unabashedly embraces this sense of its own history, then it should be reflected on one of the most important products of a Harvard education: a diploma. But if the University wishes to make the documents more “modern” by printing diplomas in English, it might as well update the abbreviation...