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...peer-advising program, of which I am fortunate to be a part. Last year, instead of announcing that the popular, 25-year-old Prefect Program would henceforth be better funded and better trained than ever before, the College simply said that the program would no longer exist, and would instead be “morphed into something else.”Anywhere else on the face of the earth, such a statement probably would have prompted a follow-up question about what exactly the program’s replacement might be. At Harvard, however, it was enough to provoke...
...Guangcheng [Sept. 4]. Disgust threatened to turn to despair. What hope is there for individuals like Chen, outgunned and outnumbered? But then I recalled the words that novelist Lu Xun wrote 85 years ago, at the end of his short story My Old Home: "Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made." A pebble cast in the water may seem insignificant, but it creates ripples...
...profound sense of coherence,” and the weekly debates with fellow scholars from other creeds and dogmas. Indeed, he even fondly quoted a former colleague complaining that Regensburg had two full faculties (one Catholic and one Protestant) devoted “to something that did not exist...
...prevailed. The world is waiting to see whether the Hamas government will follow through on its promises, or pursue an extremist agenda. And the world has sent a clear message to the leaders of Hamas: Serve the interests of the Palestinian people. Abandon terror, recognize Israel's right to exist, honor agreements, and work for peace...
...security or benefits, and countless more tales of new, inexperienced, and generally lackluster preceptors taking their place.Why does this happen? Professional instructors such as preceptors are limited to eight years at Harvard before they are forced out. (In most cases, lecturers are limited to three.) Some exceptions exist for senior lecturers who hold concurrent administrative positions. The answer to Harvard’s pedagogical woes is not to force the world’s best researchers to teach courses they have no interest in teaching. Harvard should do away with the three-year and eight-year rules to allow...