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Hackney's statement, it seemed, crystallized the difficulties many national universities--including Harvard--are having as they struggle with newfound heterogeneity and its backlash. But there is a fundamental flaw in Hackney's reasoning, whose implications have colored difficulties on our own campus this year. It is a twofold error: a dangerous and incomplete definition of "diversity," and a failure to recognize that at a university, open expression is, and must be, paramount...
This represents the essential flaw in giving out exams questions in advance. For too many students, the exam winds up testing how smart their friends are, and how well the other members of their study group prepared their assigned questions. Some final clubs even have lists of answer's on file...
...Music, World's End) is a writer of prose that is very stylish indeed, though the thought wafts through a doubter's mind that he has not yet written anything quite as splendid as his own name, which like his paragraphs he parts nattily on the left. Boyle's flaw in his past work has been to seem a bit precious and self-pleased. His new novel is one of his better efforts, though effort is the key word here, and the result is, at best, a story that is amusing and interestingly odd but baffling in its intent...
...flaw in the argument is that it makes ethnic hatreds a cause rather than a symptom. In reality, the war in Bosnia, just like the war in Croatia, is a calculated effort by the Serb government to capture as much land as possible as a means of creating a Greater Serbia. The overwhelmingly Serbian Yugoslav Federal Army has lent soldiers, weapons, training and support to the so-called Bosnian Serbs...
...presentation on Sunday, Perot proposed that a term-limitation law automatically take effect if legislators fail to meet preordained deficit reduction goals. His idea, though unique in its style, is plagued by the same flaw as other proposals like...