Word: factly
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...inconsistency" of supporting both E4D and the Class Gift, Warren is just plain dumb to suggest that it is shown false by the mere fact that some people don't care whether their actions have consistent justification. People do things they can't justify; the doing doesn't substitute for justification. And of course those in charge of E4D would rather have students give to both funds than only to the Senior Gift; self-defeating ideological purity ill serves everyone's interests...
...second point, about Ivy League athletics in general. The temptation is great, when an Ivy school is failing in athletics, to simply lower its standards and raise its winning percentage. That there is a direct trade-off between admissions standards and on-court success is a stark fact of life for Ivy League sports...
Finally, there are two personal notes I've always wanted to get into print. The amazing fact that Harvard has not won an NCAA team championship since the 1906 golfers turned the trick--much discussed during the soccer and hockey exploits of the past few years--was turned up by me prior to the Crimson icemen's NCAA appearance my sophomore year...
...student activists want to work on a national level. Many, in fact, feel that working to establish a national network is counterproductive and that a more effective way to work for political change is to focus on local issues and local change...
...fact, correcting for inflation, real wage increases may have been growing. My point, though, is that Harvard's anti-union crusaders engaged in an obvious attempt to distort the figures they chose to use. I have worked as an economics journalist, have edited tests in statistics and social sciences, and have taught graphing in math classes; I can't recall ever having seen a chronologically backward graph before--and certainly not one which was also titled chronologically forward...