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But while the threat of flunking may light a fire under students in general, there is little evidence that the ones who serve as cautionary examples actually benefit. Just the opposite may be true. A national study of 12,000 pupils found that students retained before eighth grade are more...
Oliver Wendell Holmes once observed that every profession is great that is greatly pursued. Boxing in the early '60s, largely controlled by the Mob, was in a moribund state until Muhammad Ali--Cassius Clay, in those days--appeared on the scene. "Just when the sweet science appears to lie like...
He was wrong. Joe Frazier, speaking of their fight, said he had hit Ali with punches that would have brought down a building. Coaxed into fights by his managers long after he should have retired, and perhaps because he loved the sport too much to leave it, Ali ended up...
In his Class Day address on the Law School's (HLS) Holmes Field yesterday afternoon, Kennedy School of Government Public Service Professor David R. Gergen recalled the days when law was a profession that "instilled in its practitioners a sense of inner satisfaction."
The Law School will graduate 554 doctors of law (J.D.), 151 masters of law (L.L.M.), and five doctors of juridical science (S.J.D.) at its exercises in Holmes Field.