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...live in a society, and dare I say a University, where few would admit—and none would admit proudly—to not having read any plays by Shakespeare or to not knowing the meaning of the categorical imperative, but where it is all too common and all to acceptable not to know a gene from a chromosome or the meaning of exponential growth,” he said...
...It’s easy to pass off the late-August floods that took 20 lives and cost millions of dollars to clean up from Texas to Wisconsin—freakish weather in a part of the America where that’s common. Unless of course, those were your houses washed away, your relatives drowned, or your insurance premiums raised...
...core along these lines neither adopts the great books approach that Mahtani derides nor the general distribution approach that he embraces but rather provides a common-sense synthesis of the two. It presupposes only that knowledge is cumulative and that progress in education depends on mastering the basics...
...It’s easy to downplay the significance of the floods that crippled the New York subway system this summer —unless, of course, that’s your commute coming under increasingly common threat of delay...
...people can make into a career if they want,” says Bohrer. “Or not.”SLAYING THE DRAGONMeanwhile, back in Cambridge, HCSUCS’s new generation is testing out their chops.It’s a Friday evening in a Winthrop common room, and HCSUCS’s first self-produced show for the school year is gearing up. The performers are mostly sitting on their hands in the front of the room, stage left. Every poshly-upholstered armchair in the room is full.“Stand-up is the most...