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Former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei expressed hope for a world free from nuclear weapons, speaking before a full house at the Institute of Politics yesterday evening...
...Berryline is just so much better, in taste and general friendliness,” agreed Natalie S. Feldman ’12. “[Pinkberry is] a chain that started 3,000 miles away. Pinkberry’s not going to chase anybody away from Berryline—only if it’s open later...
...little deeper and you’ll find that Harvard hesitates to say explicitly that such a common bond unites us. Undergraduates’ latest institutionally-sanctioned educational philosophy comes from the Report of the Task Force on General Education. The task force’s framing of its new set of requirements fall well short of a claim to excellence. “The general education curriculum,” the authors admonish, “does not pretend to constitute a comprehensive guide to everything that an educated person should know. There is simply too much information...
...task force never does get around to saying whether there is any specific content whatsoever that an educated person should know. Officially, Harvard will not even broach the topic of whether specific information is necessary for education, let alone declare in what way excellence comes from academic study. In general, the language of this report centers on a rhetoric of preparation, not a rhetoric of common pursuit with one’s fellow students...
...assumption is often that the woman was drunk and the man was not at fault," she said, adding that the victim is often blamed for appearing promiscuous or not putting up a fight. "In the face of general and even legal acceptance of violence against women, we need to work to change attitudes and laws, and individual awareness is especially important...