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...It’s what we call in math ‘the law of small numbers,’” he writes. “There weren’t enough cases to make any sensible statistics...
...until your calluses bled, and now you’re finished. For many of you, gaining acceptance into Harvard was a tireless goal; for others, it was a hopeful prayer before tossing your application in the mail. Regardless of how you came to call yourself an incoming Harvard student, you made it, and for that, we congratulate...
...recent Swiss referendum on the building of minarets, spires used to call Muslims to prayer, is a perfect example of how Islamophobia extends beyond a vocal minority. Recently, 57 percent of Switzerland’s population voted to ban the construction of future minarets in their country. This response seems excessive because there are currently four minarets in Switzerland and roughly five percent of the population follows Islam. The danger of the Alps’ chocolate-box villages being swept away in favor of numerous variants of the Blue Mosque looks slim. A comment by Roberto Calderoli of Italy?...
Harvey Silverglate, a lawyer who has been employed by dozens of students going before the Ad Board since 1969, is a strident opponent of the process, going so far as to call it an “evil system...
...would anyone ever call someone a vegetable? It’s just a funny question,” says Latif F. Nasser, a second-year graduate student in History of Science, describing the inspiration behind the three-part scholarly short he submitted to the festival. The film explores the phenomenon of giving people labels as vegetables—for example, coma patients in vegetative states and bums as “coach potatoes...