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Current members of the NAS nominate potential new members in their own fields of study, and then narrow the nomination lists through a vote on specific fields, Spiegelman said...
Such a disappointing result is the rather unsurprising product of a one-year process conducted behind closed doors and largely driven by the narrow-minded agenda of a University President who, to judge by his repetitive gene-chromosome rhetoric, seems intent on turning Harvard into his alma mater, MIT. (Oddly enough, the sciences may well lose the most under the proposed revisions: a delayed concentration decision, “mandatory” study abroad and decreased field-of-study requirements will do no favors for undergraduate science concentrators.) Lawrence H. Summers—whose comments on undergraduate education at last...
...page argues for more legal immigration to bring about economic growth, while The National Review argues vehemently for a hiatus on all immigration—so that immigrants already here can be culturally assimilated. Disparities within the conservative position run the gamut, and to ignore these distinctions is simply narrow-minded...
Without a single dissenting vote, the faculty moved Thursday to back a report by the First-Year Lawyering (FYL) Committee, chaired this semester by Fairchild Professor of Law Andrew L. Kaufman ’51, which advised that the FYL course narrow its focus to legal research, writing and oral presentation...
...supplied by taxes on the purchase of toxic chemicals and petroleum and on corporate profits above $2 million. But the Republican-led Congress allowed the fees to expire in 1995. Bush is the first President to oppose the levies, and last month Lautenberg and other Senate Democrats lost a narrow vote to reinstate them. In protest, the Sierra Club aired "Make Polluters Pay" TV ads in Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan--all swing states. And on April 15, tax day, activists in 25 states picketed post offices to object. "We went from polluters paying to citizens paying," says Oklahoma environmentalist Earl...