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...charges of illicit sex practices just keep coming. The New York businessman who donated $30 million to Harvard in 2003 for the creation of a mathematical biology and evolutionary dynamics program may face charges of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl who sought his help in becoming a model, ABC News reported late last week. According to the complaint filed with the New York Supreme Court—and first posted on the Web site of The Smoking Gun, which requests government documents under the Freedom of Information Act and posts them online—Epstein...
...While there is nothing inherently wrong with a group using clothing to promote their student organization’s event, there are several things wrong with WIB’s choice of motto. The slogan undermines a fundamental principle of the model workplace: Your looks ought not to matter when it comes to your career prospects. Acknowledging the fact that showing up to your job at an investment bank in sweatpants and Birkenstocks would be a poor move, what matters most in a job is how well you do it, not how well you dress...
...Harvard’s dodo hides a darker secret.“It’s just a replica made from duck and chicken feathers,” said Jeremiah Trimble, the curatorial associate in ornithology at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology who dusts the model from time to time.A small sign states it’s a model, and it stands alongside a real dodo skeleton, but some visitors leave thinking they’ve seen a preserved specimen—until someone tells them otherwise.“It’s like the dodo...
Rorty thinks we can have both by keeping the language systems separate. This stringent partition of human nature between public and private, however, comes off as callow. One would be very hard pressed to be an Übermensch over breakfast and a model democrat at the office. Only in a world in which language completely controlled human behavior would his “liberal ironist” paradigm become viable...
...which until recently was best known for its place in the Triangle of Death. Mahmudiyah was where five U.S. soldiers were killed and three kidnapped in May. But local Iraqis there are now trying to soften its violent reputation and even make Mahmudiyah and its surrounding political district a model for peace and reconciliation among Iraqis and with Coalition troops...