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...extension” of findings from social psychologists and evolutionary biologists, who—restricted by the rules of science—are reluctant to extrapolate differences between the sexes into important evaluative conclusions. Therefore, he turned to the literary annals of the past two millennia for affirmations of his “common sense” belief...
...nuances), and television and radio programs are recorded and streamed online. Accessibility is certainly a concern, and copyright a closely related one, but the bits, which unlike analog media can be perfectly preserved indefinitely, are safely stored.The intellectual output of mankind in the three or so millennia leading up to 1995 is not faring as well. Google announced last year that it planned to begin digitizing material in university libraries such as our own, but the initiative has been mired in controversy, hindered both by publishing houses that fear for the value of their copyrights and by stodgy academics...
...uncle—will he one day be able to say that his niece was in junior tutorial with a future UN Secretary-General? You have taken the family in a startling and significant direction. While you take your exams, think of yourself as the newest chapter in a millennia-long odyssey of singularly interesting family history. Think of each paper as a small lightsaber battle in “Star Wars.” I know...
Epithets against Christianity are, of course, not new—it was compared unfavorably to cannibalism almost two millennia ago—and so what is most pertinent are the actual arguments advanced against “Narnia” and the religion it so clearly represents...
...artificial and does not reflect the many complicated intercultural interactions that the course’s professors themselves admit have been central. The course in general presents a primitive determinism, as if Western culture were an essence or a spirit which realized itself in the course of two millennia, thus betraying the sophisticated comparative analyses practiced by many Harvard historians...