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It’s time for us to face the facts??all of Pakistan’s attempts at appeasing the Taliban have been a failure, and there’s no reason to expect any differently in the future...
...convince us that withholding judgment is the only reasonable choice)? When Kaavya Viswanathan was accused of plagiarism, I remember hearing contemptuous comments in every corner of Harvard Yard well before the suspect passages of her book were publicly scrutinized. Watching rumors quickly transform into absolute “facts?? and seeing reasonable people cast sweeping verdicts were frightening events for a freshman born in a totalitarian state, who thought that groupthink would not so easily occur in America...
...important that voters are informed about the person for whom they cast their ballots. But if the process of debunking entails alienating and even implicitly vilifying part of the population, it is time to reconsider one’s tactics. In his rush to get the “facts?? straight, Obama, along with McCain and the media, has only reinforced the infuriating notion that Muslims are something less than true Americans. This election has been a celebration of diversity on issues of race, gender, and geography—why not religion...
...itself—now receive no Core credit for doing so. The Core planners’ major argument—that Core courses teach “modes of inquiry” and “habits of mind” rather than mechanically transmitting a body of facts??has some merit. Surely these modes are useful. But the great fallacy in the Core as implemented so far is that the two approaches—the “mode of inquiry” and the survey course—are somehow mutually exclusive. They...
...trivia contest. Prior to the event, each co-sponsoring group submitted 10 questions concerning the major beliefs, people, holidays, and scriptures of their religion. No student was allowed to answer a question concerning his or her own religion.“I was very pleasantly surprised by how many facts??some obscure—students knew about other faiths,” said Sabrina A. Zearott ’09, the council’s publicity chair. “I didn’t realize how aware Harvard students are of other faiths.”Zearott...