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While the quick action on the bill was both necessary and effective, some of the new regulations appear to have been inspired more by fear than by merit. Tapping Internet accounts without authorization threatens Americans’ civil liberties and is unlikely to significantly ease investigations. Detaining immigrants without charges condones discrimination by law enforcement...
...shapes and colors used by children, he should have remembered the learning technique most often employed by them as well: repetition. An entire gallery of simple lighted creations would have been stunning. New Light Works was not. The individual creations, especially the light boxes, had some merit individually, but they lose much of their merit when they are lumped together like this...
...purpose of this festival is two-fold: to display the depth and breadth of talent in the Ivy Leagues to the outside world and to display to the Ivy League the merit of those among us who concentrate in Visual and Environmental Studies (VES). Although Ivy League schools are often recognized for academic excellence, there is a strong artistic side to these colleges that frequently goes unnoticed. The goal of the festival is to display that there is more to Ivy League students than the stereotype of high SAT scores and straight As on high school report cards. As Peck...
...military insists things are going according to plan, and that the critics are forgetting the initial warnings from the Pentagon and the White House that this would be a long, complicated war in which previous definitions no longer apply. There's some merit to this criticism. Deep down, the entertainment-driven media culture of the past decade expects a denouement within days. And nobody ever made a talking-head career out of telling audiences how well things are going...
...however, is which texts should be chosen. Hundreds of books have a claim to inclusion in the canon, and even in a year, there are only so many works that students can read in any depth. The course should focus on works of the highest literary, philosophical and historical merit and with the greatest ability to illuminate those cultures and traditions that have affected the intellectual development of the world which Harvard students will enter. They should be chosen by a high-level committee of professors and administrators, one fully conscious of its vital role in shaping a Harvard education...