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...real challenge for Dershowitz’s text is to distinguish itself from his more than 20 other intellectual treatises and publications...
...concede that Hamas militants have stuck to their yearlong cease-fire, but since the election Fatah has intensified its attacks on Israeli targets. Fatah appears to be aiming to bring Israeli wrath on Hamas, hence hastening the downfall of Haniya's government. So far, Israel has been careful to distinguish who is shooting before it fires back. Since the election, no Hamas targets have been attacked, but last week an Israeli missile killed two Islamic Jihad militants riding in an ice cream truck in Gaza, along with three bystanders, including a child and a teenager. Says Col. Yohanan Tzoreff...
...said.Freeman added that faculty seemed most concerned about specificity in grading. “The arguments all hinge on the ‘B+’ grade,” he said. “The faculty want to be able to distinguish the student with an 89 from other ‘B’ students.”But grade inflation is not a problem unique to Brown. In a letter sent to faculty in January this year, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 acknowledged grade inflation as a problem...
...woman having appendicitis is low, doctors need a way to test for the condition, Pedrosa said. “The problem is that abdominal pain is very common during pregnancy for other reasons” Pedrosa said. “The challenge for us is to be able to distinguish those situations where abdominal pain may be related to more trivial conditions...from those situations where surgical treatment is needed like acute appendicitis.” Though Pedrosa said the ultrasound remains the first tool used in diagnosis because it is fast and harmless to the fetus, when the ultrasound...
...those of us who earn our bread at Harvard—in other words, those of us who are in a position to distinguish between the reality of this complex situation and the knee-jerk hysteria that surrounds it—it is hard to interpret the post-resignation public defenses of Summers as anything but angry, reactionary pessimism. Indeed, we should remember that “political correctness” was a concept invented by conservatives to malign progressive attempts to democratize and diversify the academy and to make higher education more hospitable to a broader range of people...