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...this year. For many of these students, Harvard’s decision may be only a minor setback, but for others in less stable situations, like Max’s, the decision is potentially life altering. We don’t pretend to tell Harvard whom it can and cannot admit; ultimately, the housing crunch meant that some hard decisions would have to be made. Nonetheless, the current applicant pool deserves more than just a reimbursement. The damage has been done, but Harvard still needs to disclose some more compelling reasons for putting an end to transfer applications...
...believe that healthy normal women should make a life for themselves in the public world, and it is therefore immoral to create circumstances where they cannot do that,” author Linda Hirshman said. “I certainly didn’t agree with his book,” referring to Mansfield’s “Manliness...
Thus the common thread on these shows: there are no external circumstances you cannot overcome by improving your internal attitude. On The Biggest Loser, weight loss is about positivity, not genes; on Big Give, your ability to better yourself is limited only by your willingness to help others; on Gunn's and Kressley's shows, your problem is not in your hips but in your head. We want the shows, like the Wizard of Oz, to tell us that we had courage, brains and heart inside us all along...
...research—comes dangerously close to the dogmatic and inflexible systems of belief that it originally replaced. Science needs to abandon its practice of prescribing advice for society and return to its root mission of exploring the mysteries of the universe. After all, the best human life cannot be discovered through peer-reviewed controlled tests; it can only be attempted through zeal, a bit of good luck, and an earnest desire to make the most of existence...
...escape Saddam Hussein's persecution of Shi'ites. Although Ali, 39, came to Dublin in 1999. At that time, there was peaceful co-existence between Shi'ites and Sunnis. He says one could even crack Shi'ite-Sunni jokes in mixed company. That is no longer true. "They cannot handle it anymore," he says of Sunnis. He saw relations begin to deteriorate in Dublin as Shi'ites gained power in Baghdad, and they grew worse as the sectarian conflict in Iraq became more violent...