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...dream last night. It was about Derek C. Bok. And then we cleaned up the sheets and went back to sleep. Later, we had another dream, a dream that one day our sons, admitted to Harvard as legacies, will be judged by the content of their character and not the presence of their penises (or by the fact that their fathers were the two greatest inventors of the 21st century). Yet we awoke to a dystopia, in which every aspect of campus social life is determined by gender...
Students come to Harvard seeking an outstanding education, and many are disappointed. For undergraduate teaching to become the priority that it ought to be, it is essential that professors have measures of their success as teachers. And while students may not be qualified to judge the content of a professor’s scholarship—that is not the goal of course evaluations—students must be the primary judges of a professor’s teaching abilities. One does not need a doctorate to determine whether a professor is well-organized, whether she can present a coherent...
...launch phase for us to discuss subscription details.” Hypothetical subscribers will shell out $36 for six issues, one full year of 02138. To compare, magazines like Vanity Fair charge half as much for twice as many issues. For the hoi polloi without a Harvard degree, content is available in an online issue. But a Harvard degree might be necessary to stand the self-awareness: the teaser for one story reads, “Think the vigilantes patrolling the Mexican border are a bunch of uneducated xenophobes? Not the one with the Ph.D. from Harvard...
Notably, Webb, Ford, and many Midwestern Democrats do not even support gay marriage; Ford has said that he will vote for Tennessee’s constitutional ban on Tuesday, and Webb has said that he is content with the status quo. I have no idea what these men actually believe, but I do know that they—a black Democrat in Tennessee and a white Democrat in Virginia—are close to milestone victories because they please their constituents. And part of these candidates’ appeal to many voters is the fact that neither waves a rainbow...
...nuclear standoff as it is Kim Jong Il. Even after the test, China and South Korea still fear a collapsing North Korea more than they do a nuclear one, while Japan and the U.S. would like nothing more than to see Kim gone. Russia, for its part, sometimes appears content to just observe the diplomatic gridlock...