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...turkey. Wattenberg fills 400 windy and repetitive pages with folksy statements ("Is there hope for American kids? You bet there is") and self-important quotations from his own previous work. His favorite word? Psephology (look it up). The book was also clearly rushed into print, riddled with typographical and factual errors that make the reader wonder what else the author may have got wrong. He says, for example, that Richard Allen Davis was convicted for the murder of Polly Klaas, when in fact a venue for his trial has not yet been chosen...
...fellowship winners, are a financial boon to their departments as well as to the University. Had Mansfield bothered to inquire which minority students received Harvard funding and which students had outside sources, he would have been forced to acknowledge the groundlessness of this generalization. Based on hasty generalizations and factual inaccuracies, Mansfield's claims are neither interested in an inquiry into the facts nor designed to promote a constructive discussion of the issues involved...
...condemn race baiting and other efforts to belittle, stigmatize, and/or de-legitimize persons whether because of race or because of gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation. As no doubt all members of this community demand, we simply expect that debate, about whatever subject, adhere to standards of intellectual honesty and factual accuracy. It is certainly ironic that those persons who champion the cause of standards the loudest are often the ones who make this expectation the most precarious...
...appreciate the Crimson's recent editorial endorsement of a strong Radcliffe and of our current restructuring plans ("Radcliffe Takes a Step Forward"). However, my colleagues and I must ask your help in correcting a major factual error...
...would like to also point out some factual errors in R. Alan Leo's article. First, the MSA currently does not have office space of any kind. Like many ethnic and cultural organizations at Harvard, the MSA has no formally assigned university space...