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...students see the Faculty, not Summers, as the problem—hopelessly isolated, out of touch, and politically correct. As one of my friends—an economics and philosophy concentrator and an ardent Summers supporter—told me last week when arguing that the Faculty had made an egregious error in leading the cause for Summers’ ouster, “Harvard has to stop pretending it’s a liberal arts school.” He is not alone in this assesment: most students support Summers because he seems to be a straight thinker...
...parent received an ardent round of applause when she asked about potential changes to the calendar to bring it more in-line with the calendars of other colleges and universities...
...early days, the ardent Liberal-National coalition that replaced 13 years of reformist Labor rule was raw and clumsy. Promises were broken or brazenly reclassified. The ministerial departure lounge attracted frequent flee-ers. But its fat parliamentary majority meant the Howard government did not lack the appetite for transformation or a fight. Inheriting a fiscal mess, the new government's fixers appeared to relish the task of taking money away from universities, welfare recipients and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Taxpayers' assets were passed on for sale to merchant bankers, government debt was shredded, and a shareholder democracy was born. When...
Before it became the modern label for an ardent arguer, the devil's advocate was an esteemed position within the Catholic hierarchy. These trained skeptics were dispatched by the Vatican to assess candidates for sainthood. They interviewed witnesses, evaluated miracles and analyzed evidence; occasionally they helped build a case for canonization, but more often they dismantled...
What no tourist [visiting the FBI's headquarters in Washington] will see is the bureau's investigative file covering thousands of ordinary U.S. citizens. It was the existence of those files ... which gave even the most ardent admirer of the FBI a slightly uneasy feeling [during "the trial of the eleven top U.S. Communist leaders"]. It was not that very many people objected to flushing out Communists ... But it was a suspicion that any such collection was bound to damn the innocent as well as the guilty ... In a nation where nobody loves a cop ... the further question arose...