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...called “great books” curriculum that would equip students with the tools they needed to engage fully in a meritocratic society.While the new Gen Ed proposal eschews anything even remotely like a core set of knowledge, its goals are similar to those of the Red Book??s. “Harvard should seek...to inspire its students to become active and engaged citizens” reads the report. This is a citizenship based on the post-9/11—not post-Pear Harbor—world situation that necessitates an understanding...
...Structured in two parts, titled “Making the Sale” and “Buyer’s Remorse,” respectively, Rich likens the book??s narrative to a two-act play. If this were a play, Rich—who was branded “The Butcher of Broadway” during his New York Times tenure as chief theatre critic—has just given the Bush administration the worst possible review...
...diet. Part of the appendix—“Defusing Your Danger Zones”—adopts both the language of existing diet plans and the common strategy of assigning people “types” and then providing solutions that feel individually-tailored. The book??s format is made accessible with large-spaced type, frequent graphs, and inset quizzes, such as one where readers attempt to match the personality type to the matching flavor of soup...
...even though he couldn’t ride a bike, Tribe had been on a decades-long roll. Since 1978, he’s brought three dozen cases to the Supreme Court and won about two-thirds of them. The New York Times once declared his 1978 book??“American Constitutional Law”—“the closest thing to a definitive treatise on the Constitution.” In 2004 he received one of Harvard’s 20 prestigious University professorships—his post had previously been held...
...college student, though, the unfairness of the SAT is not the real antagonist of the book??after all, the SATs are behind us. It was Noah’s story that was truly frightening—the tale of college loan payments, not knowing what to do next, and wishing it were as easy as filling in a few bubbles with a number two pencil...