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...questions of education were debated. This time around, nobody knows what’s going on—much less feels excitement. Unless the process takes a drastic change, we risk two dangers as students and professors sleep through the review: at the worst, permitting grave mistakes (centering the justification of learning on economic concerns), and at best, missing a golden opportunity. Last commencement, Summers called this “the most comprehensive examination of undergraduate education in a generation.” He’s right, and that’s what’s sad?...
...ourselves. By voting to strip President Roh of power and leaving it to the country's Constitutional Court to determine his ultimate political fate, South Korea's National Assembly has demonstrated the frightful weakness of the country's purported democracy?and has dealt that already frail structure another grave blow from which it is not yet clear it can recover...
...will make a grave mistake if we become a political institution,” Summers said. “There would be nothing I could do that would be as damaging to this institution...
...defense of the ban, Adams House Committee co-chair Joshua A. Barro ’05 fumed that the dining hall was becoming “a satellite Annenberg,” adding that residents suffered such grave indignities as being unable to eat with their blockmates on occasion. Mealtime crowds, however, are a small price to pay for the privilege of luxurious accommodations in the most centrally located residential house on campus. Indeed, the “house community” miasma usually deployed to justify interhouse restrictions disregards that, alas, at Harvard all house communities are not created...
Muhammad Shams, an SSI security guard at Eliot House, says the situation is not as grave as his colleagues believe. “I don’t think anyone will quit because the majority will not be able to find a better deal than their job at Harvard,” Shams said...