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...their students. To give greater incentive to fill out the tedious evaluation forms, compliant students will receive their grades earlier, and the “Q” site will remain open even after exams have concluded.But these measures do not primarily ensure, however, that teaching fellows have equal opportunity to be upbraided by their unlettered pupils. Rather, the Faculty has inadvertently undermined a fundamental concept of education by casually inverting the roles of student and master.Earning a place on the Harvard Faculty is no small achievement. The gate to this exclusive preserve remains almost ineluctably locked, even...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: Rule of the Unwise | 2/19/2008 | See Source »

...generating support for the political opposition, whose spiritual leader is Anwar Ibrahim, a former deputy Prime Minister who is temporarily barred from holding political office because of a 1999 corruption conviction. Anwar's promise to reform the country?s pro-Malay programs, under the slogan of 'We Are All Equal,' appeals to many Chinese, who make up 30% of the country's 10.9 million voters. "Life is more then just economic success," says opposition leader Lim Kit Siang. "Justice, equality and humanity are important components...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malaysia's Election May Be Done Deal | 2/18/2008 | See Source »

Americans are looking for a solution for the war on terror - does Musharraf fulfill that end? He only exacerbates the war on terror. There is the Newtonian law that every action causes an equal and opposite reaction, I don't know why the Americans seek to pursue this war on terror in the wrong fashion. This war on terror is all about misguided and ill-informed notions of justice. If you lock up the justices then people - particularly people who are armed and have little value of life - will take to alternate means of justice, particularly if they are possessed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with a Lawyerly Rabble-Rouser | 2/16/2008 | See Source »

...strive for transparency is to implicitly recognize the charged nature of the policy. The policy was implemented without consulting community members at large and without correcting the discrepancy in resources this creates between the genders. Administrators who wish to cling on to this notion that this is an equality issue should, at the very least, make the situation equal by holding men-only hours in another gym at the same time...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: No Boys Allowed | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...career fatigue. In fact, he still seems to be enjoying the novelty of it all.“I started freelancing for The New Republic when I was in law school, but I always thought it was going to be just a hobby,” Toobin says. Equal parts pundit and pal, Toobin is in his element translating arcane legal-ese into plain English. And that he credits to Harvard Law.Toobin’s school ties are thick and fast: he met his wife, Amy B. McIntosh ’80, as an undergraduate, and his law school...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Toobin Talks Book, Bench, and Beloved (Alma Mater) | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

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