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...rape victims—both those who have had abortions and those who have not—on Harvard’s campus. Many rape victims, even years after their ordeal, experience Rape Trauma Syndrome (RTS), which can cause them to feel socially isolated and psychologically unstable. To confront victims with daily reminders of their pain hurts their attempts to cope with the outside world. But to tell a rape victim who has had an abortion that she has committed a “crime” is positively cruel. Sarah Rankin, the director of the Office of Sexual Assault...
...Harbor—world situation that necessitates an understanding of American culture, foreign cultures, and religions. “I think both the Red Book and our report are both kind of efforts to look outside the college to what the world’s like that students will confront,” says Menand. “I think we kind of think of ourselves as going back to the great mother document which was the Red Book.”LEARNING FROM THE EXPERTS Usually the members on education committees at Harvard are experts in their fields?...
...rather than directly confront the Shi'ite militias, the prime minister tends to deflect the blame for the sectarian violence toward Sunni terrorist organizations. He did it again Wednesday, saying: "The root of the bloody cycle that we are undergoing is the presence of terror organizations that have arrived in the country...
...problem with the general education report released earlier this month is that it fails to confront the major fault of the Core Curriculum: the lack of student choice. A philosophical change from “ways of learning” to “application of learning” doesn’t solve the fact that only about one-eighth of the courses in the history department fulfill the Historical Studies requirement, and only one class in the entire philosophy department fulfills Moral Reasoning. Quibbling over methodological approaches and requirement names will only replace one repressive system with another...
...mantle convection moves the tectonic plates, which in turn control the distribution of natural hazards such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes. We then address how dinosaurs came to be. Here, I concentrate on the central unifying principle in biology, Darwin’s theory of evolution. We then confront the challenging question of how we make inferences about the biology of extinct organisms, which centers on how we make inferences about the past (also relevant to the humanities). Along the way, students learn much about dinosaurs, biomechanics, and key concepts such sexual selection, species concepts...