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This is clearly an important committee that demands a wide-ranging candidate list to function effectively. The faculty, not Dean Knowles, should be picking their own representatives. While it's good that the election procedure has been modified in time to prevent the council from becoming an appointed body, the level of apathy that spurred the change is still dangerous...
...Harvard students were just compared with themselves? The grades would fall drastically. A C, however, looks bad no matter what school one gets it from. Obviously, competition would increase, and this is not usually an environment conducive to learning for the sheer value of learning--the university's highest function. Also, Harvard is not similar to high school, in which many disparate ability levels exist; here, all students fall within a very narrow band of ability--exceptional ability--and what is to differentiate one from another? Further, Harvard students deserve some kind of reward (a good grade) for their work...
...through a performance that Rush Limbaugh called "lackluster," and others much worse. Clinton was buoyant, shameless, cleverly conciliatory, as he proclaimed the end of Big Government, attacked sleazy Hollywood profiteers, extolled the virtues of the family and a balanced budget. Clinton's speech was so Republican in form and function that Dole could have just welcomed him aboard the G.O.P., joked that House minority leader Dick Gephardt should be giving the response and said good night...
Likewise, building community which spreads across the lines of creed that used to function as our most impermeable cultural boundaries requires a willingness to live our beliefs together--not to put them aside, or to sequester them from each other. The month of December, for instance, which bristles with various meanings and observances for our respective religious traditions, is a richer time at Harvard, now, not a poorer one, because our beliefs and rituals have met each other here candidly, sometimes uneasily, not without tension, but in their respective integrities...
Cambridge has had to function without a mayor since Jan. 1, its longest deadlock since 1984, and city residents are getting restless...