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...Harvard looks for a new president and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences seeks to find a new dean.The search won’t be concluded for several months. Interim President Derek C. Bok, who has already said that he will not select the next Faculty dean himself, has chosen as well to defer this decision to the as-yet-unnamed 28th University president.“Joe Martin has served the Harvard Medical School and the University with integrity, imagination, and great distinction,” Bok said in a statement yesterday.And Martin will continue to serve the school...
...that is being perpetuated by Solomon, not on auxiliary concerns. We applaud the efforts of Lambda, the Law School’s gay rights activist group, to protest DADT purposefully and effectively, and we wish that more undergraduates would follow Lambda’s lead. Regrettably, some undergraduates have chosen instead to hold aimless blanket protests of the military at large, including the inane recent “die-in” outside last Friday’s career fair, rather than focus on the military’s discriminatory policies. Such activists conflate a desire to serve our nation...
...revolutionary papers from the merely good from the rubbish, scientists will have no way of knowing which discoveries and experiments merit their time and interest. Instead, they will spend inordinate amounts of time wading through the quicksand of junk science to get to truly interesting work. Peer reviewers are chosen as peer reviewers for a reason—unlike the hoi polloi that roam the Internet, they have the knowledge and experience to judge scientific research on its merits. Furthermore, the peer review process strengthens papers, as authors are forced to defend their research’s weaknesses?...
...Albertine ’04, Devin Lyons-Quirk ’05 created the site, which launched in August. Unlike other weight-loss websites, McLean-Foreman said Traineo tries to get a community behind user’s efforts to shed pounds. Traineo sends weekly e-mail updates to chosen family members or close friends, keeping these “monitors” posted on the user’s training, caloric intake, and weight change. Most users give up on their diet plans because of a lack of a strong support network, McLean-Foreman said. “Users...
...Emily—felt the need to switch concentrations to government. At the same time, Pier was inquiring about a new Humanities portal course and its potential to count for Core credit. The ability to make such choices was the primary reason both of us had chosen an American education over a British one, where applicants are compelled to fix their course of study before even being accepted to a particular university...