Word: doubting
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Some have claimed that Jackson's only motive in these missions is self-aggrandizement. There is a convincing case to be made for this accusation, but I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. I will assume that Jackson is merely interested in alleviating suffering and resolving conflicts. The harm done to our larger national goals is simply incidental. It would be a shame, then, to see Jackson retreat from his good works merely because they complicate our ability to manage consistently our international affairs. Perhaps he should just re-direct his energies to problems with less...
Last Friday, Pforzheimer House and the Undergraduate Council showcased Harvard's own in the Springfest Battle of the Bands. The chosen, selected to compete by some mysterious and no doubt complicated process involving a whirl of demos and referrals, were: Putney Swope, usagipop, the Mode Mode and 98%. Despite a few false starts and technical difficulties ranging from a broken guitar string to an impertinent drum machine, the show moved quickly from set to set. Each band played up to a half-hour of selections. With a range that spanned from noise rock to soul classics, it would have been...
ESPP claims that the course will return next year without Adelson and Perlman; they frame this event as just another case of regular turnover on the teaching staff. But beyond the obvious differences in content and quality that different professors would bring, we doubt that anything resembling Conservation Biology and Biodiversity could be taught by anyone but Perlman and Adelson. Junior Faculty have no incentive to invest the enormous time and energy such a course requires when it takes them away from the publishing that will garner them tenure; Senior Faculty have no incentive to leave their research and spend...
...Whichever model one accepts, it is hard to deny the importance of emotional and mental factors in pain. Professor Anne Harrington of Harvard s History of Science Department has written extensively on the cultural and scientific nuances of pain. For her there is no doubt that pain is "mutable" and "porous to cultural expectations." Indeed, "The idea of a context-free human biology is an outmoded proposition...
...lawning probably costs more than it is worth. Marty might agree, and so should this year's Commencement speaker, Alan Greenspan. Unless, that is, this superficial cost-benefit analysis is wrong, and the grasseous benefits do outweigh the pain-in-the-asseous costs. Giving Harvard the benefit of the doubt, there must be some intangible attributes of the grass not captured in the it's-a-pain, what's-the-point model...