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...class-conscious” admissions policy is not just a matter of fairness. Diversity—including socioeconomic diversity—enriches Harvard’s intellectual life. Just imagine how much poorer an Ec 10 section discussion on the earned income tax credit would be if all the participants’ parents took home six-figure salaries...
...matter how quickly and plainly newspapers correct their errors, the damage they cause will rarely be wholly undone. In the earlier stages of the Internet age, some worried that the Internet would leave little historical record, but the opposite appears to be true. Google and YouTube seem to guarantee that our mistakes will never die, and will, in fact, reach an ever broader audience...
...didn’t matter that he had probably never met these women (though apparently the team met privately with Imus to discuss his comments). It didn’t matter that these women had worked tirelessly as both students and athletes to make it to this championship game. All that mattered was that they were women; and women, according to Don Imus and Bernard McGuirk, are ultimately just a joke on the basketball court...
...Wrinn, a Harvard spokesperson on labor issues, declined to comment on the matter late last night, saying that he had not yet seen the letter...
...case raises the issue of conflict between state and federal law. While federal guidelines may stipulate who is to be blocked from buying guns, it is the states that must provide the information to make the databases work. In practical terms, it won't matter what the federal guidelines say if state law says only certain people need to be reported. "Obviously there is no way that the sellers of the gun could have known what happened in the procedure with Mr. Cho," Bonnie told TIME. "Even if it should have been entered in the database under federal law, there...