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...said that Gould questioned generally accepted ideas, like Darwin’s theory of evolution, and sought to correct and improve them...
Harris said that most professors have faced difficulties in hiring the correct number of teaching fellows and that having enrollment figures ahead of time would be a great help...
...Russians are certainly correct in claiming that the Chechen fighters infiltrated from Georgia. What they're not discussing, of course, is how - according to Russia's own account - some 200 to 300 heavily armed, uniformed men managed to cross the border in an area where Russia knew they were operating and then, over two weeks, march largely unmolested through some 30 miles of the most heavily militarized and tightly-controlled parts of Russia...
...course, the principal response available to defenders of unilateral policies is: Get over it. This statement is admittedly not nuanced, and therefore frowned upon by members of the Harvard Faculty. But, for all its simplicity, it also has the virtue of being correct. The truth is that there are many situations in which we grant individuals greater autonomy due to their superior judgment. Indeed, the structure of the professional world is based on just such a hierarchical ordering, and those who lead organizations pursue the organizational equivalents of unilateral policies. This may gall the insecure and the immature, but after...
...corroboration rule is a huge step backward (Editorial, “Equal Under Law,” Sept. 20). This absurd policy mimics se xist corroboration laws that were in place until the 1970s when the women’s movement successfully fought for reform. The Crimson is also correct when it characterizes Harvard’s new policy as evidence the College is turning a blind eye to the serious problem of sexual violence on campus—a problem that disproportionately affects women students...