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Students also asked Kagan to explain the logic behind the “one-exam-grading system,” which dictates that grades for each class are usually based on a single exam at the end of the semester...
According to his mother and friends, Pring-Wilson earned perfect scores on the logic section of the ACT and the verbal sections of both...
...including damming the world against its wishes and making troublesome regions safe for industrial intrusion—there’s the infamous “Toxic waste memo” of 1991, from which one choice line should suffice: “I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that.” Summers later claimed variously that he was kidding and/or that those weren’t his own words. In any case he signed them, and nobody is laughing...
...wonder, why can’t Harvard keep itself and its professors out of trouble? It’s too late for Kissinger, but perhaps Summers ought to reevaluate the impeccable logic of working with a war criminal as a fellow diplomat. Plenty of wealthy and prestigious institutions manage to stay afloat without turning themselves into ivory bunkers manned by the certifiably wicked and/or corrupt. Maybe Harvard should get a task force going to look into how it’s done. Here’s a tip: Once they’ve been ruined, don?...
Full participation in a club, logic would suggest, is consistent with pursuing the aims and ends of the club. Dogmatic professions of faith are what religious communities usually require of their members, and most certainly of their leaders. It does make an enormous difference to the integrity of a Christian club in the evangelical tradition if its leaders are unwilling to subscribe to the orthodox Christian beliefs to which the club is committed. That the Crimson should argue that “the purpose of the group is irrelevant,” boggles the mind...