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...requirement on general education courses.”With such broad power, the new committee promises to become a bureaucratic monster like its predecessor, stifling curricular and pedagogical flexibility and operating only in line with the letter, not the spirit, of its governing legislation. The new standing committee may begin life as an agent of reform, as the Core committee did, but over time, dynamism will inevitably devolve into inertia. If the Task Force’s rhetoric of flexibility and openness is to become reality, it must be explicitly enshrined in the legislation, not left to discretion...
Let’s imagine that Harvard decided to divest from every offending oil company in the Sudan within a few years of its launching operations. Given that it costs hundreds of millions of dollars to begin drilling, such large sunk costs would make the company loathe to pull out. In contrast, if oil companies knew before entering or expanding operations that doing so would make them subject to divestment, they might behave differently. Only a targeted divestment policy, by defining the actions that warrant divestment, would effectively deter an oil company from entering the country or proactively affect...
There’s not a great difference in what airs today—the new focus of censorship can be attributed to the fact that we as a people have evolving tastes. We begin to really like something, and only then does someone come along to ruin the party. Most of the time, the reasoning is simple: What’s most popular generates the most airtime for a cause. Sometimes, however, there is a self-interested component that doesn’t go unnoticed...
...wins also pushed Harvard’s record over .500—it was 4-5 going into the weekend—as it prepared to begin its Ivy schedule...
...Riyadh to not merely to endorse a formula for peace - the Arab League's Beirut initiative, first adopted in 2002, calls for full peace and normalization of relations if Israel withdraws from Arab lands occupied in 1967 - but also to provide a mechanism through which Arabs and Israelis could begin discussing the formula. "Regional states," she said, "should participate actively in diplomacy to advance the achievement of peace...