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...campus after their first or second year. This radically changes their social scene in several ways. For one, parties (and alcohol of any kind for that matter) are generally not allowed in the dorms. The term “dorm party” doesn’t really exist. And two, since students do not live in dorms, they are able to more easily facilitate parties in their fraternity houses and apartment complexes. I am in no way suggesting that Harvard gives up its residential housing system for the sake of drunken revelry. In fact, I think the housing system...
...French must become more open to celebrating France’s diversity instead of pretending it doesn’t exist...
...bread and cheese for breakfast. His brother, a doctor, was killed during the Cultural Revolution. The fact that Li leads classes on Western etiquette says something about how far China has come since the days of Mao, but it is also a reminder of the gaps that still exist between China and the developed world. "It's only people like us who can teach good manners," says Li. "Nobody else knows anything...
Before we understood Rayleigh scattering, there was no scientifically satisfactory explanation for the sky's blueness. The idea that the sky is blue because God wants it to be blue existed before scientists came to understand Rayleigh scattering, and it continues to exist today, not in the least undermined by our advance in scientific understanding. The religious explanation has been supplemented--but not supplanted--by advances in scientific knowledge. We now may, if we care to, think of Rayleigh scattering as the method God has chosen to implement his color scheme...
...greater transparency. Delegation and centralization can be useful tools for planning certain initiatives, but the result in this case was that the UC, responsible both financially and in terms of organizational legitimacy, was left powerless and penniless. When these channels of communication break down or don’t exist in the first place, those responsible for handling oversights are left no ability to fulfill that responsibility. In all, the process left a sour taste in the mouths of everyone involved, but if it takes a failure of this magnitude to spark debate on the future of the HCC, then...