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...audits’ intention is not to build a culture of distrust between faculty members. Rather, our hope is that a culture in which faculty members feel free to provide constructive criticism to their colleagues will develop. This is already the case at many of Harvard’s professional schools, where professors will sit in on lectures and collegially make suggestions about a fellow professor’s teaching. We see no reason why this should not also be the case in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Professors who do not wish to submit to such constructive scrutiny...
...Kinsley's attempt, however, to place most of the blame for newspapers' decreasing readership on the Internet and bloggers-whom he characterized as "some acned 12-year-old in his parents' basement recycling rumors"-is simply ridiculous. Kinsley's hyperbolic criticism confirms many of the reasons for the general distrust of mainstream media. Kristine F. Collins Providence, Rhode Island...
...Kinsley's attempt, however, to place most of the blame for newspapers' decreasing readership on the Internet and bloggers - whom he characterized as "some acned 12-year-old in his parents' basement recycling rumors" - is simply ridiculous. Kinsley's hyperbolic criticism confirms many of the reasons for the general distrust of mainstream media. Kristine F. Collins Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. Kinsley should ask why people visit blogs for information instead of getting their news from larger, mainstream media like newspapers. It is because organizations lose credibility when they make judgments that are wrong. I got the impression that Kinsley wants...
Back then, Bok said, members of the Faculty were pitted in rival camps and “united only by their common distrust against the administration...
...formally decreed the separation of church and state, and Pope Pius X complained that "God has been driven out of public life." Attempts by militaristic governments in the 20th century to mix God and patriotism, such as Francisco Franco's National Catholicism in Spain, served to heighten the distrust Europeans felt for religion. After the 1960s and '70s, secularism had become a central part of the West European mind-set, so much so that even devoutly Christian leaders - like Britain's Tony Blair - were extraordinarily cautious about proclaiming their faith in the public square. Meanwhile, regular church attendance in Western...