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...hard to sort out the competing claims because there still has been no independent judgment of what went wrong and whether it is being put right. The committee the Ministry of Culture created to perform that task is made up of most of the bureaucrats responsible for the damage, including the architect who installed the climate system, the curator who oversaw the installation project and the lab director. How such a committee can arrive at unbiased answers is "a good question," admits Marc Gauthier, an expert on the Gallo-Roman era and the committee's chairman. But he says...
...difference in models to the more interpretative nature of the latter course.NAME OF THE GAMEWith two or more professors lecturing about their specialties, students are exposed to the breadth of those fields.“It’s important for students that they can make their own judgment, it’s easier for them to do that if they see historians disagree,” says Associate Professor of Japanese History Mikael S. Adolphson, who teaches Historical Studies A-14, “Japan: Tradition and Transformation,” with History chair Andrew D. Gordon...
...complexity of the world requires us to have a better understanding of the relationships and connections between all fields.” A society more fragmented than today’s, Gregorian argues, has more of a dependence on experts and more of a temptation to eschew judgment in favor of accepted opinion. A fragmented knowledge defers answers to the “big questions” because it has decided that no one is qualified to answer them. Yet the big questions always remain...
...Roberts, Jr. ’76 “was and is romantic about all things Harvard,” his Harvard Law School (HLS) friend, Donald S. Scherer, told The Crimson last summer. But Roberts’ amorous attitude toward his alma mater did not overpower his legal judgment in a high-profile case on campus military recruitment this past year.Roberts’ opinion in Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR) upheld the constitutionality of the Solomon Amendment, which forces universities to give military recruiters equal access to campuses or give up grants from several...
...Larry I saw in his office was, by all accounts, not the same President Summers that deans and faculty saw. I will never completely understand the perspective of those faculty members who fought for his ouster, nor will I ever have enough information to offer a definitive judgment on his presidency.But if there is one thing that I am certain about after this whole to-do, it is that Harvard’s next president—whatever other qualities he or she holds—must have the same zeal and care for undergraduates that Larry does. If Larry...