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...honesty, I must commend this administration for having some valiant goals in mind. It seems to want improved teaching fellows, better planning for larger classes and more thoughtful advising in the course selection process. However, the pseudo-preregistration system that is in the works may very well accomplish none of these goals. And in the process, the new culture of course selection will only cheapen and further commodify a Harvard education...
...when TIME says the FBI failed, it means the institution, not the thousands of good, hardworking field agents whose only goal is to serve justice and make our country a safer place. It's time political correctness and careerism took a backseat to doing the right thing, and I commend Rowley for leading the way. LAURA ARMSTRONG Marietta...
Still, on this issue of Nazi-slandering there remains one significant difference between America’s Chomsky-ites and the Middle-East terror-mongers: Many Arabs subtly, and some even overtly, commend Hitler’s policies. Sheikh Muhammad al-Gamei’a—a supposedly moderate Muslim cleric who left the Upper East Side to return home to Egypt after Sept. 11—told an Arab interviewer last October that the Jewish people had ridden “on the back of Germany,” but then “Hitler annihilated them because...
...scholars that former President Neil L. Rudenstine brought to Harvard during the 1990s. His departure would leave serious doubts that the department could retain its remaining luminaries. The bad feelings between West and Summers were reportedly cleared up after a meeting between the two men in early January. We commend both for their willingness to mend fences, but now is the time for Summers to actively try to persuade West to stay...
...family if some family members are given the power to evaluate others. But tutors are paid employees of the College and, however friendly the House atmosphere, the nature of their stay is contractual. It makes sense that students, for whom the tutors are supposedly resources, are able to commend tutors who do an outstanding job and to make suggestions to those who are less effective...