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Fred O. Smith ’04 said he thought other people might have been upset when the sculpture was torn down because it took a great deal of work to construct...
...work based on what others have done. You know those sourcebook articles that spend 90% of their time regurgitating the arguments of others, concluding with a new way of looking at those arguments? Those articles are very valuable, and also 90% easier to write than the articles that construct their own everything from scratch, in addition to their own arguments and conclusions. The articles are also much easier to defend in oral exams—the unexpected evil cousin that follows Thesis Club. Many academic greats have gotten quite far on this model, so borrow and footnote away...
Call it a technical knockout. Regulations state that all films must be nominated by a recognized national committee made up of a group of impartial filmmakers. Palestine, lacking many of the trappings of a nation, also lacks any such committee. "We were going to construct a committee for the purpose of submitting the film, but we never got that far," says the film's director, Elia Suleiman. "At least now the academy might have to re-evaluate the logistics of how they reject or accept films...
...outlines of this new mission are not new, but TIME has uncovered enough fresh details to construct the fullest picture yet of the CIA's secret army. It spoke to past and current intelligence officials, including an active member of the SOG, as well as to detractors within the Pentagon. Our report...
When is the last time that you had an informal discussion with your friends about slavery? Chances are, if you had such a conversation recently, you were either discussing slavery as a historical topic or as a philosophical construct. If you were discussing slavery in the context of current events, your conversation may have been about the issue of reparations. However, like the majority of Harvard students—and of Americans—you were probably unaware that slavery itself is not simply an institution of the past, but a current practice that continues to oppress tens of millions...