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...long, the improvement of writing instruction at Harvard has received mere lip service. After the Harvard College Curricular Review, the Standing Committee on Writing and Speaking was created to keep an eye on the teaching of writing, but the administration, up until the present, seemed content to rest on Harvard’s laurels. We hope that Bok’s writing test will provide concrete evidence showing such people just how necessary change is both in the Expository Writing program and across the curriculum...
...offensiveness of the event was not its content. It’s fine by me if Harvard students are aching for mediocre sex tips. Nor do I have major objections to Madison’s lifestyle...
...token ban should be considered for what it is: a symbol. A symbolically easy way to symbolically sweep the problem of recurring racism and America’s hypocritical past under a symbolic rug. Perhaps the resolution allows council-members to go home (or to voters) content, but with or without the “N” word, our society will still be bedeviled with racism. The only things we will lack, if the moratorium stands, is one word in the dictionary and a good chunk of our erstwhile-intact freedom...
...industry, refusing to acknowledge all signs to the contrary.While Wall Street may not have realized it, it’s perfectly obvious why satellite radio is not making money: no one wants to pay for radio, especially radio with generic programming. Since the FCC only regulates the content on “free-to-air” radio, listeners have the illusion that satellite radio, with Howard Stern as its icon, is more edgy than local radio. But other than the notoriously vulgar Stern, the bulk of satellite radio’s content is as bland and commercialized...
...site since 2003. But Random House and HarperCollins have loftier goals than Amazon: they want to bring literature to the Facebook generation. Both publishing houses are introducing tools that will allow readers to export text from their books to other forums. Readers can use Insight to post content on personal Web sites, while HarperCollins’ widget can place content on social networking sites like MySpace.com. Has the publishing industry really sunk to level of MySpace? Will chunks of Ulysses soon co-exist with millions of pictures of sulky teenagers? Maybe the eventual triumph of MySpace was inevitable. Publishing houses...