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...words of her coach, she can do almost anything.“Jade can play anywhere for us,” Allard says. “She can catch, she can play middle infield, she can play the outfield.”She can fly. Literally. The consensus from the team is that what Jade brings to best help her team is tremendous speed.“She’s such a dynamic player,” Bock says, “because of her great arm and speed.”Reichling will look to backup at second...
...pity is that even in its current, imperfect state, NAGPRA can work (to date, about 30,000 remains and half a million funerary objects have been returned to tribes), provided that everyone turns down the heat and tries to reach consensus. However much knowledge scientists pry from the Kennewick bones, the goodwill lost and the contentious precedents set may make the next generation of NAGPRA cases a lot less friendly than the last...
...likely criticism of this approach is that it reduces the core to a distribution requirement. But given that the current core admittedly does not work, the faculty has no consensus on reform, and a distribution requirement is one likely outcome of the current curriculum review, it is a reasonable interim solution...
...University is strongest when we pool the contributions of all fields of study and all members of the community. Whoever comes to assume the presidency at Harvard will need to understand the value of building consensus across the broad constituency that they lead and have the power to influence. Building that consensus should begin with the Harvard Corporation embracing an inclusive and transparent search process that involves faculty and undergraduate and graduate students from across the University...
...Harvard, “conservatism” is Burkean; the unifying theme is apathy or even resistance to change. This conservative consensus is a product of students who are too busy, cynical, or self-satisfied to battle the status quo. George Bryant—a fixture around Harvard Yard for his daily distribution of Revolutionary Communist Party flyers—said of his discussions with students, “They are a pretty skeptical bunch about these changes. People do want to make a difference, but their expectations have been lowered in comparison to my generation because they have grown...