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...2006’s “Excellence Without A Soul: How A Great University Forgot Education”—an expose by former dean of the College and Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68—the report also echoes the pragmatic educational ideals that John Dewey sought at the turn of the twentieth century.Dewey believed that teaching students the relationship between academic texts and their own experience would lead them to be better citizens, and he emphasized the relationship between experiential learning and participation in a community...
Richard Powers is out with a new novel, “The Echo Maker.” The cover is deceptively serene—a solitary bird casually flies over an empty field. The book is actually about a truck accident, memory loss, and discovering dark secrets. The amnesic victim, his sister, and a renowned neurologist team up to figure out just what happened. There is no mention of a bird. However, the back flap does list the impressive awards that Powers has won for his past work, which includes eight novels. An innovative plot and a strong authorial track...
...five percent reduction every three months to send the message we’re not going to be there forever.” McAuliffe attributed Republican political success to strong media connections: “The Republicans have a very effective, what I like to call ‘echo chamber’: Fox News, The Washington Times, the New York Post, The Wall Street Journal editorial page, Rush Limbaugh. We don’t have anything of the sort, the daily repetition that keeps the story going.” IOP Director Jeanne Shaheen moderated the 90-minute-long...
...receive,” Adelman said. “Our policies in funding, such as our decision not to fund fees for visiting speakers, are products of budget constraints. We have to prioritize to make the most benefit out of our money.” And rather than echo the common complaint that the UC has no philosophy behind its funding choices, we believe that indiscriminate, non-preferential funding is itself a philosophy—and the fairest method of supporting all groups on campus...
Mark Foley wants you to know that he is a gay man." That's what Foley's lawyer said last week, in an echo of former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey's line "I am a gay American." But the most relevant fact about Foley was not that he is gay--it's that he spent a lifetime hiding it. True, in recent years the Congressman was seen in the company of a male dermatologist in his district. Even so, in 2003 Foley revealed the deep shame he felt about his homosexuality when he called the rumor mill about...