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...nuclear problem looks remarkably like his No Child Left Behind education policy, which simply punishes noncompliance. John Janovy Jr. Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S. In Defense of the Dems In Joe Klein's "Easy targets for Karl Rove" [May 22], the description of was excessive and uncalled for. Conyers and Rangel express a clear-eyed African-American perspective gained from hard experience. Klein may not share their politics, but he still owes them respect. Adele Batchelder Rocky Hill, New Jersey, U.S. The Sponsorship Circus Thank you for your revealing article on the ferocious advertising battle between Nike and Adidas during soccer...
...brick to branch disappointed and disaffected with certain elements of my education. “This is the best school in the world?” I would think after a Shakespeare section with a foreign teaching fellow who had hardly mastered conversational English, let alone the ability to express the rich and intricate arrangements of the great playwright. I’ve shivered in snow, rain, and even the occasional burst of sunshine after sitting through mind-numbing physics labs where menial and tedious tasks such as tracing lines on electrode-conducting paper have doubled as deepening my understanding...
...while this column is usually used to provide the writer with one last chance to express those unspoken thoughts that have been building over the years, I have to be completely honest...
...sent by the Kennedy School Student Association (KSSA) to the administration three weeks after the complaint was issued. The students wrote that they were “deeply concerned about the disproportionately small number of women and minorities at the school,” although they did not directly express approval of WEAL’s complaint. Alison Dundes Renteln ’81, president of the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) during the 1980-81 school year says there was “a lot of concern that there were so few women on the faculty?...
...this week, many of the old men (and the women of Radcliffe’s Class of 1956) are less than overjoyed with the changes that have taken place. There is grumbling about the fact that Harvard has just lost its president, driven from office for, among other sins, expressing his own ideas about the apparent dearth of women in the ranks of scholars in the sciences. The fact that today’s college administrators, as well as faculty, are at risk of being publicly pilloried by expressing “wrong” ideas cuts deeply into...