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Hialeah High School isn’t exactly the kind of place that draws a large contingent of celebrity kids, but Harvard is the kind of place that can turn kids into celebrities. After four members of its 2002 graduating class??Javier Castellanos ’06, Medardo M. Martin ’06, Eileen Matias ’06, and Vanessa Mendez ’06—were all accepted by Harvard, the Miami Herald ran a front-page feature story with the headline, “Four Students From One School Beat Long Odds, Join...
Rangel also advocates reinstituting the draft to raise the issue of class??too many poor people, he says, do too much of the fighting and other service work for the United States...
...portion, with only the briefest of asides to one’s neighbor—“No midterm: I’m in” or “A paper during reading period: see you later.” Alas, while scanning the particulars of the class??s requirements, rarely do we challenge the overwhelming assumption on which the grades are divvied up. For the mistaken—if understandable—belief in the desirability of continuous academic assessment, where a multitude of different factors contribute to one’s final grade, lies...
Hordon will miss the debut of the recruiting class??one that Walsh calls “the best I’ve had since I’ve been here”—that will now be pressed to fill a still greater void...
University funding. You have it and we don’t. Not a term goes by in Oxford without a disgruntled don heading over to the other side of the pond citing the abysmal pay offered by this supposedly “world-class?? institution. Oxford is a primarily government-funded institution, and government funding has fallen dramatically since the 1980s. In short, times are hard, and it’s no wonder that our research ratings are slipping and we haven’t won a Nobel Prize in decades. Also, whilst Harvard possesses an endowment that...