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Through him ideas become verbally and nimbly alive. All but a bitter few of his colleagues can positively confirm his intellectual talent and academic merit. As his former student and grateful friend, I, along with countless others, can personally attest to his superhuman generosity, intellectual energy and kindness...
...wants a five-year ban on reproductive cloning, after which time the subject will be revisited. Is it really possible that things will have changed so much in five years as to merit a totally new review...
...going to cause grade inflation—something that Harvard’s rival institutions seem to be much more keenly aware of. Each year, the folks over at Byerly Hall blithely send out letters of acceptance to two, three and often four times as many Presidential Scholars, National Merit Scholars and USA Today All-USA High School Academic Team members as any other school. How in the world are we supposed to even stand a chance of keeping grades healthily deflated when a quarter of admitted students have perfect or near perfect SAT scores? How indeed...
Each of these proposals has its merit, but in total seriousness one is the best answer to our problem. Have you seen the graphics on NCAA...
Despite the best efforts of the U.S., the Saudi government has so far offered little help in stanching the flow of funds to al-Qaeda, claiming that the U.S. has never presented evidence to merit a crackdown. That may change this week, when U.S. diplomat Bill Burns visits Saudi Arabia. He will bring with him, U.S. sources tell TIME, intelligence data linking some of the kingdom's leading money men and charities to Osama bin Laden. The data will include sensitive intercepts, human intelligence and wire transfers to back up American demands that the Saudis freeze assets of suspected...