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...suffer,” he said. “Why should the amount of assistance and help that you receive when you suffer be greater if your suffering is linked to a disaster than if your suffering just happens?” Summers went on to encourage a broad approach to disaster management and said that when considering how to allocate resources for disaster prevention, it is important to “think about disasters in a holistic way.” “There is a need for universities to provide the intellectual framework necessary for preventing...
...article about how the will to succeed is affected by genes, gender, privilege and persistence sparked a lively debate among readers who appreciated the broad diversity of the people we profiled and readers who rejected wealth and fame as the most important indicators of a fulfilled life...
Finally and most importantly, a faculty senate would only further retard progress at Harvard. On this page and on campus, a consensus has developed that if Harvard is to maintain its preeminence in academia, it must institute broad, progressive changes, something that has proven to be very difficult at an institution with a tremendous amount of inertia, history, and tradition. A University senate with more than symbolic power would only be an impediment to progress, slowing down the implementation of important decisions so they can be discussed at length by faculty members with already busy schedules—and that...
...Crimson op-ed, Bok wrote that the former General Education program was lacking a clear sense of purpose and permitting students to sample from too large and varied an assortment of courses loosely assembled under the broad rubrics of Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences...
...intellectually honest man who could show American universities what a liberal education was all about. The triumph of his Lilliputian adversaries, however, confirms what I had always feared about Harvard, that it is a bubble of self-congratulation and small-mindedness. The ramifications of his ouster will be broad and destructive, as free-thinkers and censors at schools across the country recalculate their positions relative to one another. This is a shameful day for the University...