Word: foundedness
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This renewed focus on the educational goals of Harvard when making funding decisions for student groups will rightly exclude groups founded on personal fancy and direct more of Harvard’s vast wealth towards groups that specifically aim to improve the University community.
Drinking has always had an uneasy relationship to women's freedoms. In Colonial America, women owned taverns but were frowned on for frequenting them. By the late 19th century, women, sick of tending to inebriated men in their midst, banded together to form the temperance movement. It was one of...
Columnist Charles Krauthammer is right that Israel cannot accept Saudi Prince Abdullah's peace-for-land plan, but he omitted the strongest reason: the proposal is founded on a discredited idea [VIEWPOINT, March 11]. The 1947 U.N. partition plan suggested the same trade-off. Idealistically, Israel accepted. In response, the...
Tommy's trial is one of several designed to take some political heat off President Megawati Sukarnoputri. Dogged at home and abroad by the reputation that she is more interested in cutting ribbons than crafting policy, the daughter of the man who founded Indonesia could badly use a bit of...
Education is noble, but a business too. World-class universities must compete in a world market for top-flight professors, research grants and funds to build labs and support needy students. Oxford and Cambridge have huge advantages over less famous universities (Britain now has almost 100), but with the country...