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Another potential concern is that the prevalence of economics reflects pre-professionalism instead of the liberal arts ideal of intellectual inquiry. Never mind that Harvard started out largely as a pre-professional school (the profession then was being a Protestant minister). Some students may choose economics because they believe it is good preparation for a business career, but the department’s courses emphasize economics as an intellectual pursuit. This is an annoyance for some students, but in our view the right approach for a liberal arts university...
...French couturier of his generation, died in Paris on Sunday. He was 71. Saint Laurent, who retired from fashion in 2002 because, he said, it had been "reduced to mere window-dressing," was widely considered the father of democratized fashion and the designer most often associated with the feminist ideal of empowerment in the 1970s...
...Harvard undergraduate housing system, initiated in 1931 under University President Abbott L. Lowell, class of 1877, was an ideal solution for student life, but inevitably presented the University with ongoing structural considerations. Housing renovations are nearly as old as the Houses themselves—simply put, from the moment a building is finished, it is on a slow, but sure, path towards deterioration...
...What kind of workplace is an ideal ROWE candidate...
...children who need them regardless of race, but also by supporting adoptive families with consideration for their ethnic make-up. Says Pertman: "Nobody's saying black kids shouldn't have white parents, but does anybody really think we live in a fully color-blind society? It's a nice ideal but it's not reality...