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Enter Donald Rumsfeld, explaining to the Senate why there are photographs of American soldiers torturing Iraqi detainees. Faced with the fact that the Pentagon knew about these abuses in January, he tried to explain why he and the president have become shocked, horrified, etc., only in May. “It is the photographs,” he said. “Words don’t do it. The words that there were abuses, that it was cruel, that it was inhumane, all of which is true, that it was blatant, you read that and it?...
...first we sort of danced around anything substantive, talking instead about freshman year, housing woes etc., and then I realized that there wasn’t really anything else to say. The whole point really was that we were sitting there in the same room, on the same uncomfortable futons, talking gently around the issues of racial and ethnic diversity at Harvard...
...many subjects (public health, macro stabilization, etc.), advisory work is a critical component of first-rate research,” Sachs wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson yesterday. “It is akin to the fact that advances in human medical science often require a clinical setting as well, not simply an office or laboratory...
...student to check in with them and make sure that the student is aware of the problem, that the student is aware of the resources the College has to help with various issues or that there is not something else causing difficulties (like roommate problems, personal issues, illness, etc.).” Even though policies concerning academic standards are strict, there are a lot of safety nets...
...imagine a future in academia and other highly motivated students, the yawning gulf between the last day of classes in December and the end of exams can be filled with sparkling original research,” Connor says. “Pushing exams back, compressing reading period and exams, etc. will thwart that kind of work, and no J-term can make up for it. I fear that we may trade seriousness—about academics, the arts and athletics—for a stress-free holiday and some smorgasbord course offerings in January...