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...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...screaming,” Kitur recalled. The death toll currently exceeds 700, Agence France-Presse reported yesterday. At a gathering of Kenyan undergraduates on campus last week led by Joseph K. Mwaura, a visiting fellow in the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, about 10 students met to discuss the situation and possible ways to help. So far, the group has set up a bank account and has began gathering donations for humanitarian relief. Earlier, on Oct. 18, the State Department issued a warning about the country’s security. For Harvard students, the U.S. warning could spell...
...cancel tomorrow’s Faculty meeting. While this marks the 23rd time in the past 25 years that the Faculty has declined to meet in January, a tradition of extra long vacations does not justify skipping a meeting, especially one at which the Faculty was primed to discuss several important proposals. The Faculty’s decision to play hooky reflects a laziness and complacency that must change. Matters that were scheduled to be discussed at the meeting included reform of course evaluations so that evaluations and the creation of a film studies Ph.D. under the Department of Visual...
...congenial mate? Yes, very, very. It wasn't easy to communicate with him in those days. Although he spoke a certain amount of English, we couldn't discuss the philosophy of life, that kind of thing. But mountaineering decisions and so on, he was able to deal with those...
After convening for two days to discuss these ways the country is "in danger," the group issued a statement urging the two parties to move past bipartisan games and instead work together to unravel the policy and political knots that have paralyzed Washington...