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...case of Buck v. Bell, Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes handed down the infamous ruling summarized in the title above. He was talking about forced sterilization of the “feeble-minded,” but his words also sum up one attitude towards Harvard’s legacy admissions. You can frequently hear muttering about how unfair it is that Harvard is admitting legacies over equally—or even more—qualified candidates. Anti-legacyism is the last acceptable prejudice. These underqualified, overprivileged, moderately pasty folk need to stop slipping over the admissions border and stealing...
Hanging up his labcoat and accepting the position of dean, Knowles joined company with a select group of 20th century Harvard men who had not just altered the University but the world around it. In the 1940s, Paul H. Buck held the post, chairing the committee that produced the “General Education in a Free Society” report, better known as the Red Book, which influenced curricula in higher education for a generation. McGeorge Bundy was chosen as dean in 1953 by University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28, later to be tapped by another...
...very least, Kenyans know what they are betting on. Thanks to a proliferation of cheap handsets and pay-as-you-go services, it seems that practically every Kenyan has a mobile phone, and most who do are Safaricom customers. The company has made its buck by thinking small, allowing Kenyans to buy airtime in increments as little as 20 Kenyan shillings - about $0.30. It has found success by focusing on ways that even the simplest mobile phones can change people's lives. Airtime credit can be traded as currency and Safaricom also has a feature, called M-Pesa ("pesa...
...thought became explicit and Stipe became kind of a drag. So when Hollow Man's melancholy keyboard and opening lyric--"I've been lost inside my head/echoes fall off me"--drip into the air, there's an understandable temptation to scream. But before Stipe can indulge his mopey impulses, Buck's guitar rises out of the mix with a propulsive riff that picks up song and singer and delivers them safely to R.E.M.'s most anthemic chorus...
...Buck's resurgence that hits you first. The album opens with a yawping power riff that establishes a melody line, tells you who's in charge and hits the verse in a joyous explosion of fuzz. Egged on by the whomping of former Ministry drummer Bill Rieflin, Buck blows off 10 years of rust in 10 seconds on Living Well Is the Best Revenge and keeps right on flying through the first ecstatic third of the album...