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...writing a thesis this year, and I don’t seem to be procrastinating very effectively. I’ve already written almost 20 pages! My advisor is annoyed that I’ve been working ahead, and he’s run out of related reading to assign me. What can I do to fill the time till my inevitable acceptance of the Hoopes Prize? Could you suggest some entertaining diversions from my magnum opus, preferably ones that would take up most of my waking hours...
...December, the court will wrestle with whether race can be used to assign pupils to public elementary and secondary schools. White parents from Louisville, Ky., and Seattle, backed by the Bush Administration, argue that using race as a deciding factor violates the constitutional right to equal protection. The most recent precedent: 2003, when the court ruled 5-4 that race could be used as a factor in admissions to public universities. Kennedy, who dissented in that case, could swing the decision the other...
...spent the past four years embroiled in a wrongful-death suit against the city of Los Angeles. The suit alleges that crooked L.A.P.D. cops conspired with Death Row records owner Suge Knight to have Biggie murdered. (Knight has denied the allegation.) In July, her actions forced the L.A.P.D. to assign a new task force to investigate the murder...
English 168d operates on a different wavelength from other Harvard courses. Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism James Wood—Harvard-speak for "I don't have a Ph.D."—James Wood does not assign texts. To assign, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is to "allocate a task or duty." James Wood does nothing of the sort. He simply suggests reading, then—five minutes into every class—asks whether students have found the time to complete it. When students sheepishly admit that they just couldn't fit those hundred pages into...
Liberals criticize Ec10 as having a conservative bias and preaching a form of “free-market fundamentalism.” And it’s true that Mankiw—a former economic adviser to George W. Bush—did assign an article entitled “Two Cheers for Sweat Shops.” But hey, that’s economics, baby...