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...discussion during meetings by simply reading anonymous reports from students. Much like the present Q system, students could submit their feedback online, and the Q Guide could even be expanded to show which professors respond well to student feedback. While we certainly understand the criticisms of those who fear that this change would simply add to the already cumbersome bureaucracy at University Hall, we firmly assert that this new program would have a beneficial impact on the College as a whole. Enforcing midterm evaluations and grading would ultimately help, not hinder, Harvard’s oft-bemoaned pedagogy...
...parents hand us a world driven mad by violence and fear. We inherit a legacy of consciously cultivated division and rage. We have been taught to fight each other, yet as youth, we have more cause than any group to be united. We share in the fact that as young people, we must inhabit this world the longest. As the most recent arrivals, we have the least stake in the old feuds and irrational strife of the past. Today—bound together by instantaneous global communication—we are conscious of this in a way no other generation...
Sarafa, who is half-Iraqi and half-Palestinian, said he speaks only "kitchen Arabic," since his parents chose not to teach him the language for fear that he would not learn English well...
...Those who fear a missile strike on the American mainland from North Korea or Iran - not that either is anywhere close to achieving such capability - the investment in a missile shield, even one whose efficacy is far from clearly established, may seem worthwhile. To those who believe the more salient and insidious threats are those of the type we experienced on 9/11, this shield against a handful of rogue missiles represents an unfortunate diversion of funds that could be used far more effectively to defend...
...Jeremiah Wright] than I can my white grandmother," Barack Obama said in the most powerful sentence of his extraordinary speech about race on March 18 in Philadelphia, "a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me ... but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe...