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Capped at 20 students, the course attracted a fairly equal mix of undergraduates, graduate students, and law school students in its first meeting on Wednesday. They will listen to experts who have testified in related cases and split into three groups to make recommendations in the final report for debates on climate change, evolution and intelligent design, and the causal relationship between tobacco and cancer. The report will be accessible to the public via the Internet...
...college gave most of us all the excuse we needed to socialize with the few hundred other students who lived around us. And for those who sought other outlets, the great array of clubs, societies, sports teams, and even a newspaper that consumed its students’ lives offered equal opportunity to those presented by Harvard. And since Oxbridgians only took exams at the end of the year, they were even freer than Harvard students to throw themselves wholly into college life, sports, and any sort of extracurricular you might imagine. NATHAN A. PAXTON Cambridge, Mass. September...
...other places these kids could work," says Cox. Still he had to battle "old-timer" colleagues who harped that truly motivated kids would work for free. Nonsense, says Cox. "I'm adamant that that is not fair to our less privileged population. Paying them puts everyone on equal territory...
...principles of this world beyond terror can be found in the very first sentence of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This document declares that the "equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom and justice and peace in the world." One of the authors of this document was a Lebanese diplomat named Charles Malik, who would go on to become President of this Assembly. Mr. Malik insisted that these principles apply equally to all people, of all regions, of all religions, including the men and women of the Arab world that...
When Harvard announced plans to eliminate its early decision policy on Sept. 12, its dean of admissions William Fitzsimmons said he hoped other institutions would make similar changes in order to "benefit Americans and provide equal opportunity." The big question was: would other schools follow? One school has given its answer. On Tuesday, Princeton University, Harvard's legendary rival, announced that it would also ban early admissions. What have long been thought of as the top two universities in the country are finally in agreement about one thing: they believe that early admissions give an unfair advantage to wealthy students...