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...issues facing the University on which a formal consultative role for students, if not full participation, would tend to produce better decisions. Curricular structures, discipline policies, the allocation of space, the social environment of the College—students clearly have an interest in these matters, as well as first-hand experience that would contribute to Harvard’s deliberations. Current students are far more likely than Faculty subcommittees to tell the emperor that he has no clothes. Even in the tenure process and in the selection of high University officials, including student representatives would help ensure that good...
...Witness: Shattered Lives—Unshattered Dreams,” on display through March 30 at the Boston Public Library, viewers get a first-hand glimpse of the horrific reality experienced by hundreds of Nepalese women...
...Most people at first decline the offer, saying, ‘no, I’ve got too much to do.’ But then we invite them to come up and experience the IOP first-hand, and seven times out of 10 they say, ‘I’m gonna rearrange my schedule and come down there...
...nation is the intellectual author of crimes even if he did not literally have blood on his hands. The testimony from nearly 50 victims is likely to be compelling. But the most damning words may well come from the "insiders": some 20 high-level political and security bosses with first-hand knowledge of what Milosevic said and did. What Del Ponte needs to prove is Milosevic's "superior authority": that he exercised control over the perpetrators of atrocities, knew or had reason to know crimes were being committed and did nothing to stop them or punish anyone. Prosecutors...
Through his re-creation of ground-breaking experiments by famous scientists, Sacks experienced first-hand the joy of scientific discovery. Through the author’s lucid prose, the reader also experiences the individual sparkles of a young excited mind...