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...Harvard, Gleason was also the founder of the Core Curriculum's Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR), a test on basic statistical and math abilities that all undergraduates must pass by the end of their freshman year. He currently serves as the QRR's chairman and as a representative to the Core's Board of Advisers...
...administration of Harvard forgotten this value which we all, we thought, hold so important? Typically, those who assume to limit our basic civil liberties have offered reasons such as public health, national security, or domestic tranquility to convince us to accept their measures. The feeble reason the administration offers: concern about the Yard's appearance...
Introducing the film based on his 1964 novel "Gideon's Trumpet," Lewis told 50 Law School students that the ACLU is necessary organization which fights for and protects people's basic civil liberties. "Gideon's Trumpet" details the U.S. Supreme Court case of Gideon vs. Wainwright, which extended the right of legal representation to defendants who could not afford...
Somehow, I find it hard to visualize Bok and the members of the Board of Overseers furiously scrubbing away at tears caused by the thought of an unwarned African puffing on a cigarette, when the thought of tens of thousands of Africans killed fighting for rights basic to humanity evokes a reciting of the obligatory,"Yes, apartheid is a terrible injustice," followed by the resumption of the tea party...
Devastated, Sasso took a job working for Boston's largest advertising agency, Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos. He found the sidelines frustrating. He and Dukakis stayed in touch, but mainly as friends. After the convention, Sasso saw that something was missing: no one was crafting new themes to extend the basic message of the primary campaign. Still, Sasso kept his own counsel. Dukakis does not like asking for favors or admitting mistakes. So when he finally invited Sasso back, just before Labor Day, it was because the candidate had no choice: the campaign was in trouble, and only Sasso could...