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...person interested in reality, I much appreciated Michael Kinsley's Essay on the government stimulus package [Dec. 15]. The media regularly say the "taxpayer has been hit again." I don't recall my taxes being affected. Rather, we have borrowed again, and not from fellow Americans--but from China, Japan and other countries. Have we come to the point that we may have more clout in the world militarily but others have more clout economically? I have read that what really brought the U.S. out of the Great Depression was World War II. Could it be that what brought...
Professor LEIGH TURNER, of the University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics, dismissing the essay...
Stanford law professor HENRY GREELY, on the use of brain-stimulating drugs like Ritalin on college campuses, in a controversial essay that welcomes such pharmaceutical enhancement...
...years ago, John Updike ’54 complained that no one read him in the airports anymore. And this past year, he published a melancholy essay in the magazine of the AARP about the decline of writerly inspiration. “Memories, impressions, and emotions from your first 20 years on earth are most writers’ main material,” he wrote; “little that comes afterward is quite so rich and resonant. By the age of 40, you have probably mined the purest veins of this precious lode; after that, continued creativity...
...semester, 502 students, or approximately one third of the applicant pool, were unassigned.The process of assigning students to seminars is based on an algorithm developed by Harvard Business School professor Alvin E. Roth and takes into account student preferences, seminar capacity, and faculty selection based on students’ essays and sometimes interviews. It is also the same algorithm that Roth uses to find pairs of compatible kidney donors and recipients.A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGHWhile the students who were rejected this semester can apply again in the spring, they are not guaranteed a spot and are no likelier...