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...Menand said that the proposal would backfire if students cannot take the “common-ground” courses until declaring their concentration their sophomore year, forcing them to jump into 100-level department courses as a gateway into the concentration...
...Menand added that the four “common-ground modules,” which claim to redefine the English discipline, still leave out many branches such as literary criticism and 20th-century American literature: his own specialty...
...What the states have in common is their heritability—they have to be passed on to progeny, or the progeny will be eradicated...
...about Harvard students: that we are neurotic, self-serving, pretentious automatons bent on winning prizes or ruling the world. That we are so concerned with success that we have forgotten how to live. I see none of that mindless careerism in the Christmas lights blinking from the privacy of common room windows, nor in the harried students lingering together over cups of hot chocolate in their dining halls. I see people as grounded as anyone at any other college, people who see each other as more than just stepping stones to a better place...
Timothy P. McCarthy ’93, a lecturer in history and literature, spoke about the implications of California’s passage of Proposition 8 and the need for minorities who have faced discrimination to work together toward the common goal of greater equality at the Institute of Politics last night. In the aftermath of the passage of the controversial ballot initiative, which called for amending that state’s Constitution to define marriage as a union between two individuals of the opposite sex, McCarthy talked about the importance of extending Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) activism...