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...candidate profile requirement. Again, in an age when the budget crisis has only fanned the flames of anti-intellectualism in the United States, this method of applying to institutions of higher education is disturbingly detached. After all, is a signature the only item an admissions office needs to cast a value judgment on a candidate? For the same reasons, the new practice of outsourcing higher-education grading to companies based in Malaysia and India is troubling; the imperfections in a student’s paper cannot be fixed like a technological glitch. These trends serve as additional evidence that...
...three extremely proximate Starbucks locations, the glorious libraries, or those people in section with unclear genders. It is something more elusive: the feeling of not being the smartest person in the room. Whenever I am not at Harvard, I make a point of surrounding myself with the cast of "Jersey Shore," so this is not nearly as pretentious as it sounds. But whether it’s in the classroom, listening to someone eminent and white-haired lecture about something, or in your dorm room, discovering all the things your friends know about everything from classic rock to actual rocks...
...made it through! That’s an accomplishment in itself! That’s true, and graduating from Harvard in one piece is an important achievement. But the regrets that we have now, on the eve of our entrance into the real world, should not be completely cast aside. They give us insight into ourselves—what we value and why—and can prove instructive in the years ahead...
...self-defense to secure its civilians and targeting terrorists while minimizing civilian casualties. Indeed, British Colonel Richard Kemp said, “The IDF did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare” regarding Operation Cast Led. I will add that instead of distancing from Israel, the U.S. might even learn a few things from Israel on how to conduct itself morally during war against militants...
...threats of terrorism that the South Park creators face. To ignore that by substituting defense of that right with just a condemnation of violence is not only laughably impotent as a counter to terrorism, but also a legitimation of the threat itself. Indeed, the South Park controversy cast into stark light the conflict between terrorism and the freedoms that we in America hold dear, and in this case, terrorism prevailed...