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...academic left” choose to answer Travis Kavulla’s call for a seminar on the Danish cartoons (“Silences That Speak Volumes,” column, Feb. 13), I only hope he will be sitting in the first row. Kavulla obviously fancies himself a bastion of enlightened thinking, but his banal analysis strays far from Voltaire and merely highlights his inherent racism. Tolerance is obviously absent in Kavulla’s vision of world affairs which is why he fails to understand the severity of these images for Muslims across the globe. As he correctly...
According to Clapham, sperm were the last bastion of cells to resist patch-clamping...
...Justice” course, it is that although life may be unfair, human society can correct for these inequalities. In this respect, Harvard is morally obliged. There are thousands of people in the world—even on this hallowed campus, America’s so-called bastion of justice and equality—who are richer, smarter, and more talented than I am. And yet, despite this abomination, our society, steeped in the rhetoric of equal opportunity, does little to ensure a truly equal system. I’m referring, of course, to the equality of outcome. Why suffer...
...notable minds of our College step forward and volunteer themselves to identify from among the more than 20,000 applications Harvard receives the few who are genuinely worthy of admissions. Just imagine: the embarrassment that is Harvard today could become, in just a few short years, the bastion of intellectual inquiry that our Puritan forefather intended to construct...
...mobile phone company Telecom Italia Mobile it didn't already own, and the $22 billion purchase by Italian bank UniCredito of Germany's Bayerische HypoVereinsbank. Other major deals included Pernod Ricard's acquisition of British drinks firm Allied Domecq, and a continuing three-way fight for control of that bastion of shareholder capitalism, the London Stock Exchange. According to Morgan Stanley, the number of deals last year with a volume of $1 billion or more doubled from 2004, while the number of transactions exceeding $5 billion more than tripled, to 408 from 130. Behind this boom is a growing sense...