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...things must be. The argument loses its appeal when we realize that our bodies and minds were not created by an intelligent planner but by a biological process that sought to maximize the number of viable offspring, not the amount of human happiness and achievement. We need not be content with what life hands us—in fact, we rarely...
...that is limited in scope—even more so for decisions of this magnitude.While community-wide e-mails such as those that detailed the $77 million of budget cuts do not generally come as a surprise to the two, they do not necessarily have strong influence over their content.“They are consulted,” McLoughlin says.SOCIAL SPACE UNCERTAINTY Even on the more level playing field of Council politics, Flores has faltered at times in applying Neustadt’s aphorism. As some UC members grew disillusioned with an inability to elicit responsiveness from administrators...
Around the time our predecessors marched on Harvard Yard to protest that war, one of the finest literary figures of the century, Jorge Luis Borges, was at Harvard to deliver the prestigious Charles Eliot Norton lectures. Judging by their content, one could think Borges was not in touch with the profound transformations occurring all around him—rather than talking politics, he devoted the lectures to his recurrent literary themes: remembering and forgetting, poetry and metaphor, the craft of verse...
...have always felt that the mark of a good education is its capacity to raise more questions than it answers. Harvard opens our minds, broadens our outlook, and inspires our curiosity. Where once we might have been content to ask and answer a question such as, “Does global warming exist?”, today we question the merits of so-called “clean coal,” debate the costs of a gas tax vs. a cap-and-trade system, and view “organic” labels with healthy skepticism. Each broad question...
...clubs, “content to go their own way” according to Fox, were not necessarily rattled by the split...