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...first level at least, by a computer. The administration has a duty both to ensure that the program works well for more sophisticated college level work and to employ its use with a fair degree of skepticism; even computer programs can make mistakes and standardization should not lead to blind trust. Every case should in the end be held to the scrutiny of human judgment. Overall, however, we welcome the College’s attempt to modernize this system, which will hopefully discourage plagiarism and begin to a curb a disturbing trend in American higher education. Intellectual theft...
...moralize and be distant about how we analyze issues. [Today], we’re still dealing with [issues like] single motherhood and homelessness and you can’t walk down a street around Harvard and not see people asking you for change. This play really removes the blind from your eyes...
...instincts for the sake of fitting one’s gender is not only weak, it smothers social change before society is even able to recognize its problems. Those individuals who pretend such norms don’t and never will affect them are either unimaginably lucky or blind...
...paradise around them. Little Plum, writes Yan, "roams the supermarket, admiring stacks of dish detergents, napkins and bath towels as if they were flower beds or pavilions in a park." Dan's yearning for the good life - and his delight with the gustatory perks of his new calling - initially blind him to the swamp of favors and payoffs he has entered. But, in a twist out of the Socialist Realism handbook, he finds himself becoming a real journalist. After he notices that his fellow diners have filed inaccurate, self-censored stories about an event he attends, Dan writes...
...RETRIAL ORDERED. For Chen Guangcheng, 34, blind human-rights advocate who exposed forced sterilizations and abortions by family-planning authorities in China's Shandong province and was sentenced to four years and three months in prison for property destruction and public disturbance; after an appeals court ruled that his August conviction was marred by procedural violations, including the barring of his lawyers from the courtroom; in Linyi, China. Although the outcome of a future trial is still in doubt, Chen's supporters considered the ruling a rare victory. Said his lawyer, Li Jingsong, "At this stage, we could not have...