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...principal objection to establishing a canon at Harvard is that no one would agree on what to assign. But the existence of disagreement does not preclude the existence of a correct outcome. As citizens of a Western society, we should be familiar with its values and how those values evolved. With this specific educational goal in mind, the Faculty could choose works that have dramatically influenced this evolution...
...being forced to move to more affordable towns with poorer school systems, less access to jobs and transportation and increased distance from friends and neighbors. Students drive up the cost of apartments and attend a school that could alleviate the current affordable housing crisis. My intention is not to assign blame, but to point out that we have a duty to do something to alleviate the problem we have helped create...
...group developed the first Ready, Set, Relax! project for March 26, 2002. The concept was straightforward. Elementary and middle schools would not assign homework. Youth sports teams would cancel practice. Clubs and tutors would schedule no meetings or lessons. And parents would come home from work in time to have dinner with their kids and focus on family matters. "A lot of people were grappling with these issues, but no one was sure how or where to cut back because no one wanted to risk having their kids miss out or lose their place academically or athletically," says Marra...
...hand-picked by the MPAA’s Machiavellian leader Jack Valenti. All movies should be submitted before a test audience of approximately fifty adults chosen at random to speak for the interests of all social conditions, not just those of suburban soccer moms. After each screening, they would assign the movie a rating and issue an explanation for their decision. Each of these explanations would then be available for public scrutiny on the MPAA website...
Some students complain that the threat of exams hanging over their heads ruins their enjoyment of break. And surely it does, if professors assign 25-page term papers for the third of January. But students are capable of putting their work on their minds’ back burners—they do everyday, maintaining extensive extracurricular and academic lives. To ease students’ minds during winter break does not require moving exams, only that professors restrict the work due after winter break to final papers and exams and assign due dates for the middle or end of reading period...