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...trite and incomplete to deem athletic competition complementary to education. I have learned two important life skills from athletics...
...meeting said Summers appeared to be uninterested in their petition and resisted responding in writing to the students’ specific demands—creating the impression that not only was he opposed to ethnic studies, but that he cared so little about the issue as to not deem it worthy of public discussion. Although there are legitimate debates about the academic need for the study of ethnicity, Summers has unfortunately chosen to withdraw from the dialogue rather than engage...
...Carter is well aware that many Americans deem his post 9-11 journey to Cuba a potential mistake - he doesn't care. Even if Cuba does have biological weapons, he reasons, shunning the nation won't help eliminate them. But talking might...
...marry, and none of these countries is known for having a substantially higher level of genetic diseases in its population. Here at home, 19 states already permit first cousins to marry and, based on the evidence currently available, there is no reason to allow the other 31 states to deem such marriages illegal...
...Both approaches encourage befuddlement and second-guessing (perhaps something stodgy academics and former government bureaucrats deem laudable) but neither provides feedback of any real sort. The student with two grades on his paper guesses he needs improvement but doesn’t now how to improve (because there is no need, of course, to encourage TFs to provide substantive qualitative remarks or to encourage professors to interact more with students). Likewise, the employer with two numbers on a student’s transcript guesses that student didn’t have to work hard for that common seminar...