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...group of faculty has always rallied around the “Great Books?? alternative used by Columbia and the University of Chicago. An amendment to the original Core legislation was proposed to require a course on the great works of Western Civilization, but the proposal was defeated...
...collect 2,500 Vietnamese Dong. During her childhood, depression and personal turmoil were to be expected. My task, she thought, was to press on, to speed through school and complete life’s mission to support my family. Instead of carrying water buckets I was to carry books??no matter what my state of mind. It’s times like this that her shoulders—still uneven from carrying those buckets—become most visible. Harvard is my chance, she reminds me, just like my father was hers...
Harvard’s early 1990s partnership with Harken Energy Company—by which Harvard, despite being Harken’s largest shareholder, helped the oil company remove debts and liabilities from its books??is deeply disturbing. For any company, such financial legerdemain is ethically wrong, even if it does not violate the letter of the law. By hiding Harken’s debts, Harvard was able to sell its Harken stock at an inflated price—a deceptive practice that smacks of the same corporate decadence that has plagued the U.S. for at least...
Rohit Chopra ’03, chair of the student affairs committee, was also optimistic about UC Books?? future. He said yesterday that the council’s technology task force would be going back to the drawing board in an effort to make the program more competitive with other online textbook vendors...
...since Cadiff’s special concentration allowed him to tailor his schedule to his interests, he says the “other blue books?? were not so daunting...