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...necessarily mean “immediately practical,” especially at an institution of liberal arts. To treat literature and the arts as mere tools for the investigation of different societies—essentially, the philosophy of the “Cultural Traditions and Cultural Change” category??suppresses the innate value of novels, poems, symphonies, plays, paintings, and a host of other works of art. Surely, the appreciation of beauty, artistic achievement, and the richness of the human experience is just as relevant to an educated person in the modern world as is competence...
...example, is critical to understanding cancer research and the stem cell debate. We are confident that students are bright enough to consider the relevant connections even if the course doesn’t go out of its way to discuss them. Similarly, the Analytical Reasoning “skill category?? should evaluate classes based on their subject and rigor rather than on a strict interpretation of relevance to society today. The report defines Analytical Reasoning to be a set of “conceptual skills” that include “logic, statistics, probability theory, and rational...
...just 12 episodes and out.”Cuse says that the success of “Lost,” both in ratings and in critical approbation—he won an Emmy in 2005 for best drama series and a Golden Globe in 2006 for the same category??has been “utterly shocking.”“It’s kind of surreal,” he says.The show, a drama about a group of plane-crash survivors who end up on a seemingly deserted island has just finished its second...
...shot selection was great, the shooting percentage was better, and the Harvard women’s basketball team owned nearly every statistical category??but a fatal case of butterfingers soured the Crimson’s upset bid at Brown on Friday night. Harvard (8-13, 4-4 Ivy) could only watch as Brown (14-8, 8-1 Ivy) poured in 30 points off 24 turnovers—19 in the second half—en route to a 66-61 comeback win in the final seven minutes. It was the second time a victory over the Bears eluded...
...campus, for example, the admissions data for one year showed only 42 percent of entering students as white—with a 32 percent “unknown” category??whereas the post-matriculation survey’s results had only 4 percent “unknown,” revealing that at least 57 percent of the student population was white, and potentially up to 70 percent...