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...picture-postcard Swiss village, I stop at a hillside inn, have a gluhwein, and try to make sense of what I've learned. So here are this year's piste-side thoughts. We live in an uncertain world. Well, duh, you say, when has the world ever been certain? Fair enough: but the half-generation since the end of the cold war was shaped by a set of circumstances that did at least lend themselves to easy characterization. That is to say: the U.S. was dominant. The U.S. economy was the most productive and innovative in the world, while...
...pace and style—important variables not always evident during an introductory meeting. These modifications would make it vastly easier to shop two (or more) courses that meet simultaneously. Professors and departments should also modify their lottery procedures to ensure that all students have a fair opportunity to enroll in popular courses. Many courses conduct lotteries during their initial meetings, disadvantaging those students with shopping week schedule conflicts. Professors should instead conduct lotteries online, so that all students have an opportunity to participate. Finally, all courses that section—notably introductory language classes—should make...
...process of DNA distribution. In the interest of leveling the social playing-field, I support dragging Mr. Canaday down to the level of the genetic proletariat: scar his face, knock out his front teeth, surgically remove his bulging biceps…whatever it takes. It’s only fair. And we speak not only of Harvard, but also America. For even here, inequality festers in its many subtle forms. From income to intelligence to bone structure, humanity is riddled with dissimilarities that put egalitarian ideals to shame. If equality is truly to be the maxim by which Americans lead...
...some point the grad students are just going to have to compromise,” Webber wrote. “It’s not fair that the undergrads are the ones who are suffering...
...project ought to be abandoned. It was a creature of the United States in the first place." RAMSEY CLARK, former U.S. Attorney General and member of Saddam Hussein's defense team, claiming that political pressures on the court make it difficult to hold a fair trial...