Word: cored
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...challenge of re-establishing its luster has never been greater. Leaders like Johnson and Nixon may have besmirched it but they never argued outright that law should be subservient to executive power. The Bush administration, with Cheney as its architect and now its spokesman, flat out attacked our core American ideal, attempting to convince us and the world by its actions and rhetoric that Law is an inconvenient impediment to security to be openly dispensed with at executive behest...
...years ago “to grow in wisdom” would not have recognized those of us who depart today “to better serve [our] kind.” And more than any specific concentration or class, paper or professor, there is one lesson at the core of our transformation. As obvious as it sounds, Harvard has taught us to succeed. There is no need revisit the impossible odds associated with gaining admission to this college—such fortune should humble us. We have been taught by a Faculty chosen for their unrivalled ability to revolutionize...
...early retirements being offered to older professors in an effort to save money. While some benefit exists in younger faculty being given more responsibility and power in Harvard’s vast departments the faculty buyout further strains the school’s academic offerings, cutting into its core mission. This is especially problematic given that the early retirement plan came along with dramatically reduced hiring of new faculty. The cuts and policy decisions that have been made so far have been heavy, and more will be arriving in the fall. Beyond token town hall meetings, more student input must...
...which Harvard fails to teach more important lessons is in the area of criticism. There are far too many teaching fellows and professors who fail to criticize students when they make mistakes. It would be entirely possible to go through a course, especially a larger course in the Core, and make completely inane, off topic comments throughout the sections without ever being told that the comments were “wrong.” Perhaps TF’s consider it rude or insulting to tell students that their arguments or insights are incorrect, but this does the students...
...rein to count American bodies and we don't have free rein to count enemy bodies, then the enemy is going to gain a perceptual advantage, which in this new era of war is all that counts," Scales says. Accurate U.S. reporting of Taliban fighters killed "strikes at the core of the enemy's perceptual dominance," he says. All of a sudden, Scales suggests, the Taliban may no longer be sure that God is on their side. "That's an essential argument in an Islamist country," he adds, "and they may start to question the whole theocratic underpinnings of their...