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Confirming that ideas are wrong has always been less glamorous than proving ideas correct. Negative results—which do not confirm a hypothesis about how something works—do not make good scientific papers. Scientists, especially those who do biomedical research, rarely share such negative results with their competitors and collaborators. This lack of sharing leads to wasted resources and repetition of experiments when one group of scientists does not know what another group has already done...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, | Title: Let’s Be Negative | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

Targeted programs, such as SVMP, are beneficial in that they can correct the specific inequalities that remain in the professional world. HBS should keep the SVMP as is and preserve an important opportunity for business-minded college seniors from minority backgrounds...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Preserve the Program | 4/25/2003 | See Source »

...nightmare scenario, Shiite demands for America to leave will be irreconcilable with Washington's insistence on staying until democracy is established. That's when we'll really discover if Wolfowitz's assumptions were correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mideast Diary: Iraq's Shiite Awakening | 4/24/2003 | See Source »

...like Crimson Cash revealed that they had discovered serious security weaknesses that, according to the students, allowed them to monitor transactions and could potentially allow them to charge expenses to the accounts of others. The system’s provider and the University must act quickly and firmly to correct this glitch to ensure the privacy and property of Crimson Cash users...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Crimson Crash | 4/23/2003 | See Source »

About Gulf War II and its consequences (whatever they may be), though, the "great man" theory is correct, and the great man is President George W. Bush. Great in this context does not necessarily mean good or wise. It does usually suggest a certain largeness of character or presence on the stage, which Bush does not possess. Whatever gods gave him this role were casting against type. But the role is his. This was George W. Bush's war. It was the result of one man's deliberate, sudden and unforced decision. Yes, Saddam Hussein deserves the ultimate moral blame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of One | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

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