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...love-life no one acknowledges but is almost always on our minds. The talk. Who’s dating whom, who did what where and often WHY? Harvard’s gossip network is alive and well. Most of the time, we don’t even notice the extent to which conversations about love monopolize our time. If you don’t believe me, try the following experiment: think about the last five fairly lengthy conversations you’ve had with friends. The odds are that at least one of them, and probably two or three, related...
Harvard being an educational institution, the crucial role grades play in teaching must come before any role they play for outsiders. Because grades differentiate student work based on its quality, and because students produce different quality work, grades will inevitably differentiate between students. To that extent, outsiders can rightfully use grades to compare Harvard graduates with each other and with other graduates nationwide. But this effect should be an incidental by-product, not a central part, of any reform efforts...
...think it effects us to some extent,” Botterill said on Sunday. “We all really support Nancy, but we all also really support Cherie. But it’s a decision our coach thought was best for our team. Ultimately as an athlete you have to just focus on playing...
...Nobody doubts Musharraf's commitment to eradicate the Taliban element in Pakistan. The persistence of entrenched pockets of extremism simply highlights the extent of the challenge he faces. The U.S. has thrown him essential lifelines in the form of debt rescheduling, economic aid and political patience and sympathy. And he's likely to get more of the same. Because nobody wants to contemplate the price of failure in a nuclear-armed state still crawling with extremists...
...what about the lack of female social space, the dearth of female faculty and the extent to which women undergraduates are underrepresented in the sciences? These controversies get coverage in the text, but not on the cover. Instead it’s implied that things are quite rosy today, but that the book might provide a good chuckle with its history of our “foresisters who had it way rougher than [us] back when ‘Cliffie bitch’ was a common term and Radcliffe was ‘the Annex...